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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Useful Array Methods

Posted by theofanissiassios
theofanissiassios
6,498 Points

Can't get beyond the first part

var inStock = [ 'apples', 'eggs', 'milk', 'cookies', 'cheese', 'bread', 'lettuce', 'carrot', 'broccoli', 'pizza', 'potato', 'crackers', 'onion', 'tofu', 'frozen dinner', 'cucumber'];
var search;

function print(message) {
  document.write( '<p>' + message + '</p>');
}

while (true) {
  search = prompt(// <-- this parenthese is highlighted red in workspace. "Search for a product in our store. Type "list to show all products, or "quit" to exit.");
    if (search === "quit") {
    break;
  }              
} // <-- this brace is also highlighted in red.

I tried it on Chrome and Safari. Adblock turned off.

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

The reason this is highlighted in red is because you need to use different quotation marks. You have the same quotation marks throughout the prompt which is causing confusion.

It should look like this:

search = prompt( 'Search for a product in our store. Type "list" to show all products, or "quit" to exit.');

Otherwise, it believes that the first quotation mark around list is the end of the string it's supposed to use. So it thinks "list to show all products, or" is part of a piece of code or a variable and now it doesn't know what to do.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

theofanissiassios
theofanissiassios
6,498 Points

Ah, of course! I completely overlooked that.

Thanks a lot, Jennifer!