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

Benjamin Cohen
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I continue to get the following error: TypeError: quiz[i] is undefined

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

var quiz = [
  ['Who was the first president?', 'george washington'],
  ['Who was the sixteenth president?', 'abraham lincoln'],
  ['Who is the current president?', 'donald trump']
];
var answer;
var correctAnswer = 0;

for (var i = 0; i <= quiz.length; i += 1) {
  answer = prompt(quiz[i][0]).toLowerCase();
  if (answer === quiz[i][1]) {
    correctAnswer += 1;
    print("You got question " + (i+1) + " right.  Correct Answers: " + correctAnswer + " <br>");
  }
}

print("You got " + correctAnswer + " questions right.")
Benjamin Cohen
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Benjamin Cohen
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Benjamin Cohen
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Benjamin Cohen
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,045 Points

The for loop works when it's iterating through the 2D array, meaning I see this as I answer the questions;

You got question 1 right. Correct Answers: 1 You got question 2 right. Correct Answers: 2 You got question 3 right. Correct Answers: 3

But when I try and print the 'correctAnswer' variable after the loop ends I get an error.

2 Answers

jamesjones21
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jamesjones21
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9,260 Points

the issue lays within the the conditional part of the for loop, it itterates over the array and then i becomes 3, so in the array there is no key 3 inside of the quiz array. (keys are only 0,1,2) so that is why you are getting undefined. If you remove the equal sign just after the less than, it should then output the correct answers for you and undefined should not show:

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

var quiz = [
  ['Who was the first president?', 'George Washington'],
  ['Who was the sixteenth president?', 'Abraham Lincoln'],
  ['Who is the current president?', 'Donald Trump']
]
var answer;
var correctAnswer = 0;

for (var i = 0; i < quiz.length; i += 1) {
  answer = prompt(quiz[i][0]).toLowerCase();
  if (answer === quiz[i][1]) {
    correctAnswer += 1
  }
}

print("You got " + correctAnswer + " questions right.")
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

I would also try and debug it in the browser debugger, and try and step over it. Then for each question is asked you can hover your cursor over i, So after the last one entry in the array i is 2 then becomes 3 so i is 3 and length of the array is 3 so it would jump into the loop, but then cannot read anything as key 3 doess't exist.

Glad to help