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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 2 Solution

Roman Opalacz
Roman Opalacz
2,975 Points
Posted by Roman Opalacz
Roman Opalacz
2,975 Points

Can't figure out why my code is printing 'undefined' along side my desired output

So my code seems to be functioning mostly correct but when I run it, in addition to my list of correct and incorrect answers, it also prints the text 'Undefined' at the start. I'm not sure what is triggering this output.

var quiz = [ ['How many moons does earth have?', '1'], ['What is my favorite color?', 'blue'], ['Where do I work?', 'HM'] ];

var correct = 0; var Incorrect = 0; var right = []; var wrong = []; var HTML;

function printList(list) { var listHTML = '<ol>'; for (var i = 0; i < list.length ; i +=1) { listHTML += '<li>' + list[i] + '</li>'; } listHTML += '</ol>'; return listHTML; }

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

for (var i = 0; i < quiz.length; i +=1) { var answer = prompt(quiz[i][0]); parseInt(answer); if (answer.toLowerCase() === quiz[i][1].toLowerCase()) { alert('Correct!'); correct += 1; right.push(quiz[i][0]); } else { alert('Incorrect :['); Incorrect +=1; wrong.push(quiz[i][0]); } }

HTML += 'You got ' + correct + ' questions correct.'; HTML += '<h2>You got these questions right</h2>'; HTML += printList(right); HTML += '<h2>You got these questions wrong</h2>'; HTML += printList(wrong); print(HTML);

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

You have declared the HTML variable without a value so the initial value is undefined. The += operator used later in your code then appends to this initial value. One fix would be to declare HTML with an empty string: var HTML = "";