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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge

Nekki(Eno) Jose
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Nekki(Eno) Jose
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 1,951 Points

toUpperCase() is not working ? JavaScript Quiz challenge

So I was working on the JavaScrip Quiz challenge in Unit 1 I did not really have a major problem and I was able to solve my own problem but I just got curious So here is what my conditional statement looks like 

const questionOne = prompt("Are you learning JavaScript?");

if ( questionOne === "yes" || questionOne === "Yes") {
correctAnswers += 1
}

I used the OR operator but I originally wanted to use the property ".toUpperCase()" to provide flexibility to my answers e.g: 

const questionOne = prompt("Are you learning JavaScript?");

if ( questionOne.toUpperCase() === "Yes" ) {
correctAnswers += 1
}

My answer for this is either Yes or yes. Capitalized or not it should work. From the Mercury example, I thought this approach would work, however, no matter what I do, I cannot get the point for this question. And when I check using google dev tools by console logging console.log(questionOne) I get 0 points instead of 1

I have tried experimenting with it by having yes lower cased and upper cased but nothing seems to work... if ( questionOne.toUpperCase() === "yes" ) or if ( questionOne.toUpperCase() === "Yes" )

Any reason why I am having this problem?

1 Answer

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Nekki(Eno) Jose 👋

The .toUpperCase() method makes the entire string uppercased. If you want it to become true you'll want to compare your questionOne.toUpperCase() to an all uppercase YES.

const questionOne = prompt("Are you learning JavaScript?");

if ( questionOne.toUpperCase() === "YES" ) {
correctAnswers += 1
}