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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Introducing Conditional Statements

Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
6,856 Points
Posted by Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
6,856 Points

I have a simpler approach: var question = prompt('is this also correct?').toLowerCase();

isn't it simpler or am I wrong?

1 Answer

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
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Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey Pratik,

It really depends on if you want to preserve the original formatting of the input received. In other words, let's say someone put in a name i.e. "Maya Angelou", you might not want to convert it to lower case, because it wouldn't look like a name anymore. You would probably just want to test that it is equal to the lower case version of "Maya Angelou". It all depends on how you're using the data, though, Pratik!