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JavaScript

Jana Ryndin
Jana Ryndin
7,161 Points
Posted by Jana Ryndin
Jana Ryndin
7,161 Points

Last action - searching for an item does not work

var inStock = [ 'apples', 'eggs', 'milk', 'cookies', 'cheese', 'bread', 'lettuce', 'carrot', 'broccoli', 'pizza', 'potato', 'crackers', 'onion', 'tofu', 'frozen dinner', 'cucumber'];
var search;

function print(message) {
  document.write( '<p>' + message + '</p>');
}

while (true) {
   search = prompt("Search for a product in our store. Type 'list' to show all the produce and 'quit' to exit.");
  search = search.toLowerCase();
  if ( search === 'quit') {
    break;
  } else if ( search === 'list' ) {
    print(inStock.join(', '));
  } else {
    if (inStock.indexOf( search ) > -1) {
      print( 'Yes, we have ' + seach + ' in the store');
    } else {
      print( search + ' is not in stock.');
    }
  }
Ruven Koviar
Ruven Koviar
3,917 Points
Ruven Koviar
Ruven Koviar
3,917 Points 
<body>


<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>

<script>

var List = ["apple","orange"]

function myFunction() {

while (true){

var search = prompt("hi").toLowerCase();

if(List.indexOf(search) == -1){

alert ("We dont have it")}

else(List.indexOf(search) > -1)

{

alert ("We have it")

}

}


}
</script>

</body>

this works

i think you had problem with .toLowerCase (see how i wrote it) and maybe you wanted to alert(which will send a massage from the browser) in the if and else , and not print.

edit this code as you want

2 Answers

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jana,

You're missing the closing curly brace for your while loop. Maybe that was a copy/paste error?

The other issues is that you have a typo in the following code: (missing the 'r' in "search" in the print function call)

 if (inStock.indexOf( search ) > -1) {
      print( 'Yes, we have ' + seach + ' in the store');

It seems to be working fine when I tested it after making those 2 changes.

Let us know if it's still not working and any errors you might be getting in the console.

Jana Ryndin
Jana Ryndin
7,161 Points
Jana Ryndin
Jana Ryndin
7,161 Points

Thank you so much that you took time to find that 'r'. I went back and forth several times and could not see it already. Now it works!