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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 1

emeliataveras
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emeliataveras
Courses Plus Student 4,701 Points
Posted by emeliataveras
emeliataveras
Courses Plus Student 4,701 Points

Can you help me find out why there is an "undefined" showing up at the end of my program?

let qandA = [
  [ `What is my name?`, `EMELY` ],
  [ `Where do I live?`, `NJ` ],
  [ `How old am I?`, `24` ],
  [ `What is my ethnicity?`, `HISPANIC` ]
]
let answerRight = [  ];
let answerWrong = [  ];

function print(message) {
  document.write(message);
}

function results() {
  let html = `You got ${answerRight.length} question(s) right.<br><br>`;
  html += `<strong>You got these questions correct:</strong>`;
  html += `<ol><li>${answerRight.join('</li><li>')}</li>`;
  html += `</ol>`;
  if ( answerWrong.length > 0 ) {
    html += `<strong>You got these questions wrong:</strong>`;
    html += `<ol><li>${answerWrong.join('</li><li>')}</li>`;
    html += `</ol>`;
    print(html);
  } else {
  print(html);
  }
}

// -------- Begin program --------------------------->

for ( let i = 0; i < qandA.length; i += 1 ) {
  let answer = prompt(qandA[i][0]);
  if ( answer.toUpperCase() === qandA[i][1] ) {
    answerRight.push(qandA[i][0])
  } else {
    answerWrong.push(qandA[i][0])
  }
}

print(results());

3 Answers

Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,822 Points
Nicole Antonino
Nicole Antonino
12,822 Points

Functions always have to return a value. In this case, your results() function isnt returning anything, you're trying to call print() on a value that doesn't exist yet because you haven't defined what the function should spit out. So your print function has nothing to actually print. The answer someone gave above works, but writing it with a return statement is better practice:

function results() {
  let html = `You got ${answerRight.length} question(s) right.<br><br>`;
  html += `<strong>You got these questions correct:</strong>`;
  html += `<ol><li>${answerRight.join("</li><li>")}</li>`;
  html += `</ol>`;
  if (answerWrong.length > 0) {
    html += `<strong>You got these questions wrong:</strong>`;
    html += `<ol><li>${answerWrong.join("</li><li>")}</li>`;
    html += `</ol>`;
    return html;
  } else {
    return html;
  }
}
emeliataveras
emeliataveras
Courses Plus Student 4,701 Points
emeliataveras
emeliataveras
Courses Plus Student 4,701 Points

Awesome, thank you so much! JS is so literal compared to CSS I keep forgetting small things like this that matter so much!

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
12,990 Points
Blake Larson
Blake Larson
12,990 Points

They explained it better below. Basically the return is used in print and results is calling print. document.write return undefined.

let qandA = [
  [`What is my name?`, `EMELY`],
  [`Where do I live?`, `NJ`],
  [`How old am I?`, `24`],
  [`What is my ethnicity?`, `HISPANIC`],
];
let answerRight = [];
let answerWrong = [];

function results() {
  let html = `You got ${answerRight.length} question(s) right.<br><br>`;
  html += `<strong>You got these questions correct:</strong>`;
  html += `<ol><li>${answerRight.join("</li><li>")}</li>`;
  html += `</ol>`;
  if (answerWrong.length > 0) {
    html += `<strong>You got these questions wrong:</strong>`;
    html += `<ol><li>${answerWrong.join("</li><li>")}</li>`;
    html += `</ol>`;
    document.write(html);
  } else {
    document.write(html);
  }
}

// -------- Begin program --------------------------->

for (let i = 0; i < qandA.length; i += 1) {
  let answer = prompt(qandA[i][0]);
  if (answer.toUpperCase() === qandA[i][1]) {
    answerRight.push(qandA[i][0]);
  } else {
    answerWrong.push(qandA[i][0]);
  }
}

results();
Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,760 Points

correct

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,760 Points
Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,760 Points

Because any function that doesn't explicitly return something will return undefined.

You are calling the function print on results(), but results doesn't return anything, so you are essentially calling print() on undefined.

Maybe you intended to simply run results, in which case you can simply call result() without wrapping it in print()