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Brandon Thomas
6,229 PointsCode Challenge: Parsing Numbers From Strings
Hi,
I am stuck on the first part of this challenge and I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. I feel my code is correct I have tried several different iterations to no avail.
var boxWidth = "640px";
var boxHeight = "480px";
var boxWidth = parseInt ("640px", 10);
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsOn line 3, use the varibale name boxWidth instead of the contents of that variable.
Greg Shilling
3,723 PointsIn addition to using the variable name (boxWidth) in the parseInt function instead of the contents of the variable, note that you don't have to declare a new variable there because boxWidth already exists. You want to take boxWidth and assign it a new value based on the old one.
For example:
var num = 2;
num = num + 1;
Here, num takes on the new value of 3 and you didn't have to declare it again because it already existed
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 PointsI noticed the formatting of code blocks didn't seem quite right, so I fixed it.
For future reference, code blocks use 3 backticks ` (on a standard US keyboard layout it's on the key to the left of 1 key), as opposed to 3 single quote mark.
If you are still confused check out this thread on how to type code in the forum for some examples.