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Max Gabriel
11,213 PointsI'm unsure what exactly goes on line 6?
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var = secret
var = answer
do {
prompt('What is the secret password?');
} while (answer === 'sesame')
document.write('You know the secret password. Welcome.');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Andreas Nyström
8,887 PointsHi! A few things:
// Don't declare variables like this.
var = secret
var = answer
// Should be like this:
var secret = ''
var answer = ''
// do means do this at least one time.
do {
// you should probably have the variable here, instead of outside the loop
prompt('What is the secret password?');
// This says: keep doing the loop if the answer IS 'sesame'.
// What you want is to say: keep doing the loop if the answer IS NOT 'sesame'
} while (answer === 'sesame')
document.write('You know the secret password. Welcome.');
So in short it should be something like this:
// Run the loop atleast once (do)
do {
// Make one variable inside the loop instead of outside that will have the value of whatever the user writes in the prompt.
var secret = prompt('What is the secret password?');
// Keep doing the loop until the value of secret is 'sesame'
} while (secret !== 'sesame')
document.write('You know the secret password. Welcome.');