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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Numbers Parsing Numbers From Strings

Posted by Jonathan Susman
Jonathan Susman
Courses Plus Student 3,740 Points

Im having trouble with the parseInt challenge task #1

I am fairly certain I am doing this task correctly, unless pixels work in a different number set than 10?

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

can you show us what you wrote?

Jonathan Susman
Jonathan Susman
Courses Plus Student 3,740 Points

var boxWidth = "640px"; var boxHeight = "480px";

  * var numWidth = parseInt("640", 10)*

I am supposed to extract the numeric value from "boxWidth"

1 Answer

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

It wants you to use the variable boxWidth it seems, try this

var numWidth = parseInt(boxWidth, 10);
Jonathan Susman
Jonathan Susman
Courses Plus Student 3,740 Points

Ah! That makes more sense thank you!