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JavaScript

Posted by Alex Valentine
Alex Valentine
Courses Plus Student 3,368 Points

Javascript only returning one result on boolean based script

Hi Everyone,

I created a small test script that generates a random number, however it only returns the result as if the boolean is false (else statement). Please could someone have a look over it for me and let me know what's wrong with it?

Thanks so much in advance!

var decision = false; var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) + 1; var guess = prompt("I'm thinking of a number between 1 & 10, what do you think it is?"); if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) { decision = true; } if (decision) { alert("That's correct! " + randomNumber + " is the right number!"); } else { alert("That's not right " + randomNumber + " was the number I was thinking of"); }

3 Answers

Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
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Stanley Thijssen
Stanley Thijssen
5,299 Points

When i have the right answer it does return "That's correct! " + randomNumber + " is the right number!" for me so I dont see what your problem is here :)

Alex Valentine
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Alex Valentine
Courses Plus Student 3,368 Points
Alex Valentine
Alex Valentine
Courses Plus Student 3,368 Points

Oh really!? I'm using codeanywhere's compiler... Maybe it's a problem there... hmm.

Thanks so much Stanley!!

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Is it possible you were never guessing correctly?

Here's a few things that you could do to make it easier to test both of your code paths.

You could log the randomNumber to the console. That way you know which number to put in the prompt if you want to get it right.

Or you could display the randomNumber in the prompt to achieve the same thing.

These are only temporary things you would put in for easier testing. They should be removed from the final script because they would enable cheating.

Alex Valentine
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Alex Valentine
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Alex Valentine
Alex Valentine
Courses Plus Student 3,368 Points

Haha, of course I was :). Actually the code works everywhere but not the codeanwhere compiler for some reason!?

Thank you for your suggestion though! Makes so much sense.