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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops Exiting Loops

Posted by Nicolas Queen
Nicolas Queen
7,331 Points

The script continues past 10 despite the while loop having guessCount < 10. Help?

Here is my code:

var randomNumber = getRandomNumber(10);
var guess;
var guessCount = 0;
var correctGuess = false;

function getRandomNumber( upper ) {
  var num = Math.floor(Math.random() * upper) + 1; 
  return num;
}

while ( guessCount < 10 ) {
  guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10. What is it?');
  guessCount += 1;
  if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber) {
    correctGuess = true;
    break;
  }
}  

if ( correctGuess ) {
  document.write('You guessed the number!');
  document.write('It took you ' + guessCount + ' tries to guess the number ' + randomNumber);

} else {
    document.write('<h1>Sorry.  You did not guess the number.</h1>');
}

What am I missing?

Andrew Robinson
Andrew Robinson
16,372 Points

It works fine for me in Chrome, nothing looks wrong at all.

Nicolas Queen
Nicolas Queen
7,331 Points

Hmm. I even took it out and tried it in Cloud9 from workspaces. It is supposed to allow ten guesses then stop. I tried it several times and it went into the 20s. Let me try again, though.

Dan Oswalt
Dan Oswalt
23,438 Points

I also tried it in the chrome console and it works, I can't see anything wrong with this.

Nicolas Queen
Nicolas Queen
7,331 Points

OK, I was an idiot and missed something in the file structure. I basically had index.html pointing to the wrong place. Sigh... Time for a break.

Dan Oswalt
Dan Oswalt
23,438 Points

Haha, details details. The code was right, that's the important part.