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Richard Verbraak
Richard Verbraak
7,739 Points
Posted by Richard Verbraak
Richard Verbraak
7,739 Points

Off-Topic: Why won't search.toUpperCase === "Quit" work here?

Title.

I figured I'd implement the toUpperCase method for fun, it somehow doesn't work in this code though, how so?

In my understanding it would change the user input in the prompt to all uppercase letters, in this case, to "QUIT". And make "QUIT" === "QUIT" so it would be pass regardless of typing it in lowercase or uppercase.

i.e.

while (true) { search = prompt("Search for a product in our store. Type 'list' to show all of the produce and 'quit' to exit"); if (search.toUpperCase === "QUIT") { break; } }

Dylan Glover
Dylan Glover
2,537 Points

Hey Richard, I think you need the parentheses after .toUpperCase to make it a function call.

(search.toUpperCase() === "QUIT") { break; }

1 Answer

Emmanuel C
Emmanuel C
10,636 Points
Emmanuel C
Emmanuel C
10,636 Points

Hey Richard,

toUpperCase is a function so it should have parenthesis at the end of it. Else it would be treated as a property, and since none exist itll throw an error. Try...

while (true) { 
    search = prompt("Search for a product in our store. Type 'list' to show all of the produce and 'quit' to exit"); 
    if (search.toUpperCase() === "QUIT") { 
        break; 
    } 
}
Richard Verbraak
Richard Verbraak
7,739 Points
Richard Verbraak
Richard Verbraak
7,739 Points

Ahhh of course! Completely forgot to add the parenthesis..

Thanks.