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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 1

Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
3,147 Points
Posted by Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
3,147 Points

If my quiz has a mix of integers and strings as answers, how do I go about passing these both through as valid?

Currently, I can only seem to make the quiz work using only all integers as answers, or all strings as answers.. not a mix of the two. If I understand correctly, the parseInt() function converts a string answer to an integer. I have tested this out and set my answers to strings, but no luck. What am I doing wrong?

See my code below:

var questions = [
  ['What is 5 + 5?', '10'],
  ['What is 20 + 10?', '30'],
  ['What is 10 / 2?', '5']
];

var score = 0;
var question;
var answer;
var response;
var correctQuestions = [];
var incorrectQuestions = [];

for ( var i = 0; i < questions.length; i++ ) {
  question = questions[i][0];
  answer = questions[i][1];
  response = parseInt(prompt( question ));
      if ( response === answer ) {
        score ++;
        correctQuestions.push( question );
      } else {
        incorrectQuestions.push( question );
      }
}

document.write( score, correctQuestions );

Ultimately - I would like to know how I would have a mix of both integers and strings as my answers. So something like this:

var questions = [
  ['What is 5 + 5?',  'ten'],
  ['What is 20 + 10?',  30],
  ['What is my name?', 'mike']
];

1 Answer

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points
Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points

Hey Mike,

You can check if something is a number or not by using JavaScript’s isNaN() function.

You could use this in an if/else statement to handle the user's input appropriately.

As for your example, spelling out "ten" and translating that as an answer for "10" or the integer 10 is a much more complicated and somewhat uncommon solution. Assuming that's what you meant.

Let me know if you have more questions. :)

Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
3,147 Points
Mike Harrison
Mike Harrison
3,147 Points

That is very useful, thank you!