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Nick Casey
1,840 PointsHa, so I may be a little off here....
I'm trying to structure the following .js file as a loop that allows a user to input the answer "sesame" before receiving a successful return prompt.
var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
varCount +=1;
if (parseInt(guess) = "sesame") {
correctGuess = true;
}
while (! correctGuess )
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,670 PointsLooks like you have several good learning opportunities here! Here are a few hints:
- you'll need braces to enclose your loop block
- for this particular challenge, they don't want a "do" loop - you'll have to check your condition first
- parseInt is for converting to numbers, you won't need it because this will be a string comparison
- you declared a variable varCount but you don't use it (and you won't need it)
- you reference a variable guess that was never declared (did you mean secret, which holds the user reply?)
- you didn't declare correctGuess before assigning it, and you might want to do that before the loop
See if you can get it with these hints, or see if you can get closer and ask again.