Using strings as answers instead of numbers in the array quiz challenge

And to actually answer your question, what I would do is get the prompt as normal to accept strings or numbers as answers. When you need to compare the prompt received to a string, there is no problem. When you need to compare it to an integer, just run "parseInt" on the variable during the if-statement so as to preserve the content inside the variable. If you needed to compare it to a decimal, run "parseFloat" on the variable.

By keeping the variable the same, you can use the value received in some other commands like I'm doing in this very simple example below:

var width = prompt("Give me a CSS based pixel width:");
if (parseInt(width) > 200) {
alert(width + " is a decent size width!");
}
else {
alert(width + " is pretty tiny. Go big or go home!");
}

You're very welcome, John! Good luck!

That is a good point, Edouard. To keep it systematic, I would make every single answer a string so that you can immediately compare them, regardless of whether it is text or strictly numbers. There's no reason to use number values unless you need to do some number manipulation on that number afterwards. You wouldn't need to do that if you're doing a quiz. It's very easy to make new answers a string value regardless of where the input comes from because in almost every single input, the value you retrieve is going to be a string. Since you'll know what inputs you're going to be using, though, if one happens to return a number, you can call the "toString()" method on the numerical value and convert it to a string.

var quiz = [
["How many days are there in a standard year?", "365"],
["How many hours are there in a day?", "24"]
//etc.
];

Thanks for bringing that up, Edouard! Cheers!