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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops A Closer Look At Loop Conditions

Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points
Posted by Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points

Challenge task, "took too long to evaluate"?

The task was to add a while loop that would keep displaying the prompt until someone answered "sesame".

app.js 
var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
var answer = "sesame"

while (prompt !== answer) {
  prompt("What is the secret password?");
}

document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points
Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points

Okay, so I have now seen the problem with "prompt" and have now changed it to "secret" in the first part of the while loop instructions. But now the instructions are saying that I need to reassign the value of secret inside the while function. Not sure what that should become. :-/

2 Answers

Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
20,629 Points
Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
20,629 Points 
var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
var answer = "sesame"

while (prompt !== answer) {
  prompt("What is the secret password?");
}

document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");

You are very close. The problem is that prompt is the method you are calling. Secret is the variable you are storing the question into. So when you do your conditional statement in the while loop you should be asking (secret !== answer). Also, when you ask the question in the while loop, nothing but the question is being asked. The answer isn't being stored into anything. So again you need to set secret equal to the prompt.

var userAnswer = prompt("What is the password?");
var secretPassword = 'sesame';

while (userAnswer !== secretPassword) {
    userAnswer = prompt("What is the password?");
}

document.write("You know the password. Welcome.");
Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points
Julie Kohler
Julie Kohler
6,122 Points

Thanks so much. This clears up a problem I was having with a couple other functions, too. -JAK