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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops Create a `do...while` loop

Posted by El Jay
El Jay
1,921 Points

JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Challenge Task 1

need help on this one.

script.js 
var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?"); 


do {
  prompt("What is the secret password?"); 
} while (secret !== "sesame" )
  document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

3 Answers

james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points
james south
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james south
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you don't need to initialize secret as the prompt, the prompt is already in the loop. you can just declare secret. then in the loop, set secret to the prompt and add a conditional statement that checks if secret equals the password. if so, break.

Abhijit Das
Abhijit Das
5,022 Points
Abhijit Das
Abhijit Das
5,022 Points

Hello Lucky La Torre,
As James explains declare the secret variable inside the loop

do {
  var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?"); 
} while (secret !== "sesame" )
  document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points
Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

This works :)

var secret;

do {
  secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
} while ( secret !== "sesame")
  document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");