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Treana Slocum
1,989 PointsWhy did my code run properly when I programmed it like this?
console.log('Start');
var questionOne = prompt('What\'s the sky\'s color right now?');
var completeStory = 'I looked outside and saw the sky was ' + questionOne;
var questionTwo = prompt('Write either walk or run');
completeStory += '. So I decided to ' + questionTwo;
var questionThree = prompt('Choose a different color');
completeStory += ' to the store today.'
alert('You are all done. Let\'s read your completed story now.');
document.write(completeStory);
console.log('End');
Versus when I programmed it like this:
console.log('Start');
var questionOne = prompt('What\'s the sky\'s color right now?');
var questionTwo = prompt('Write either walk or run');
var questionThree = prompt('Choose a different color');
var completeStory = "I looked outside and saw that the sky was " + questionOne + ". " "So I decided to " questionTwo + " to the store today. " + "Little did I know the sky was falling and actually the color was " + questionThree + " Moral of the story think twice before you act.";
alert('You are all done. Let\'s read your completed story now.');
document.write(completeStory);
console.log('End');
I greatly appreciate the feedback!
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThe issue is in this line:
var completeStory = "I looked outside and saw that the sky was " + questionOne + ". " "So I decided to " questionTwo + " to the store today. " + "Little did I know the sky was falling and actually the color was " + questionThree + " Moral of the story think twice before you act.";
You are missing a + after the ". " and "So I decided to " strings. If you add them like this:
var completeStory = "I looked outside and saw that the sky was " + questionOne + ". " + "So I decided to " + questionTwo + " to the store today. " + "Little did I know the sky was falling and actually the color was " + questionThree + " Moral of the story think twice before you act.";
Then your code will work. Missing a + or two when concatenating many strings in a row is a somewhat common typo which causes a syntax error, which means that your script will stop running.
Treana Slocum
1,989 PointsThanks for the help!