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Michael Norton
Michael Norton
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Posted by Michael Norton
Michael Norton
6,739 Points

Parsing Numbers From Strings Challenge 1 of 2

Any clues to the answer to this challenge. I've tried every variation I can think of. No mention in the forum for this. Little Help...

A variable named "boxWidth" already exists with a value of "640px". Create a new variable named "numWidth" and use the "parseInt" method to extract the numeric value from boxWidth's string value.

 var boxWidth = "640px";
  var boxHeight = "480px";
  var numWidth =  parseInt("640", 10);

Code challenge: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/parsing-numbers-from-strings

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You are supposed to extract the number from the boxWidth's variable not from a string literal. So swap out the number you are using for the variable name boxWidth.

Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points

You beat me!

Michael Norton
Michael Norton
6,739 Points
Michael Norton
Michael Norton
6,739 Points

Thank you James and Chris ! Much appreciated.

Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points
Chris Akers
Chris Akers
2,527 Points

Hi Michael,

That code challenge wants you to parse the number out of the boxWidth variable. You are trying to parse it from a string literal "640". So the answer would be in the form:

var targetVariable = parseInt(sourceVariable, radix);