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Michael Bardwell-Scott
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,653 PointsHelp Creating a Function
I think I'm the right track, just getting a tad lost in the syntax. Any suggestions from here?
```function arrayCounter (array[]) { if (typeof parseInt.array[] === 'undefined') { return 0; } console.log(array[].length); }
1 Answer
J Scott Erickson
11,883 PointsSort of there. Your function will take an argument, which you don't know the type of, the argument will need to be a variable that holds the place of whatever is passed in, as it could come from anywhere in the code and the function itself will have no idea the name of the variable that was passed, only the variable name of the argument in the Parenthesis. You need to check for the three different cases given. a string, and number, or undefined.
function arrayCounter ( placeholder_variable ) {
if ( typeof placeholder_variable === 'undefined' || typeof placeholder_variable === 'string' || typeof placeholder_variable === 'number' ) {
return 0;
} else {
return placeholder_variable.length;
}
}