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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers Numbers and Strings

Killeon Patterson
Killeon Patterson
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Posted by Killeon Patterson
Killeon Patterson
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what is the issue with my syntax for this challenge?

What is the correct syntax for this challenge?

1 Answer

Daniel Newman
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Daniel Newman
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Daniel Newman
Daniel Newman
Courses Plus Student 10,715 Points

On your choice.

It will return NaN (Not A Number)

width * numOfDivs === NaN

parseInt(width) * numOfDivs === 1900

or

parseFloat(width) * numOfDivs === 1900

will convert your string "190px" in to the number. So one and only thing you need to do is to convert string in to the number.

parseInt and parseFloat will not convert to the number the string in to the number if the string begin with a not a number value and it will throw away all numbers after the letter:

parseInt("a12345") === NaN
parseInt("!12345") === NaN
parseInt("123a!b45") === 123

There is a regular expression if you need to get all numbers but this task is about parseInt and parseFloat only.