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Peter Retvari
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,392 PointsSolved the "duplicate values" and the "we don't have this student" challenge
Hey folks,
Dave presented in the last 30 sec of this video about a problem with this code:
- What if more than one student has the same name?
- The program won't pop up an alert window if the user type a student that doesn't exist in the database, however it would be nice.
Finally I found a solution for both problem. I wonder if you could check is it nice/ok/stupid, etc., or if you have a better, shorter solution just share with me/us.
Here you can find my little program:
Many thanks,
Peace
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,248 PointsIt looks like you've accomplished the objectives, good job.
I can think of two suggestions:
- store names with normal casing, but convert them for comparing to make the search case-insensitive
- make the search work directly with the object array so a separate names array is not needed
Peter Retvari
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,392 PointsThanks, Steven for your quick help (as usual ??? ). Yes, finally I finished it :) However, I already started the first project in Techdegree so I would like to focus on that part, but I will get back to this code and correct it ASAP, because I would like to solve the case-sensitive thing and the search directly with object challenge.