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James Cobbett
1,468 PointsNot sure what i have done wrong
Im not sure what i have done wrong on this one. Maybe I have it in the wrong order?
var secret;
prompt("What is the secret password?");
do {
prompt("What is the secret password?");
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
}
while (secret !== "sesame") {
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
3 Answers
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 PointsYou're pretty close!
Looks like there might be a syntax problem with your do/while loop. Check out this link to see how the syntax of a do/while loop.
Antti Lylander
9,686 Pointsvar secret;
prompt("What is the secret password?"); //what is the purpose of this line?
do {
prompt("What is the secret password?");
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome."); //this is now printed every time the code inside the loop is done. Move it after the loop so that it will be run when the loop has finished.
}
while (secret !== "sesame") { //remove these curly braces
}
Alan Lopez
PHP Development Techdegree Student 6,830 PointsHi James,
It took me a little to understand this as well, but I was able to find the answer here: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/i-dont-understand-58
I took your code and added comments to maybe help you understand what was wrong with it. A little long but I hope it helps with understanding.
var secret; //Declare the variable
prompt("What is the secret password?"); //You will only want to use the prompt inside the do while loop, so delete this from here.
do {
prompt("What is the secret password?"); //this is where you can re-declare your "secret" variable, along with the prompt. So it should read like this:
secret = prompt("What is the secret password?"); //Only use the prompt once inside the loop, so that it can loop over and over again until the condition ("while") is met.
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome."); //this will go outside of the loop, because this is the confirmation that the condition of the loop (secret !== "sesame"), was met and can now finish looping. Delete from here and move to outside of the loop.
}
while (secret !== "sesame") //This is the condition to be met. Don't forget your ";" .
{ //you can delete these
}//delete
//add confirmation here