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

Posted by Chris Reich
Chris Reich
15,163 Points

Where does the var secret method go!?!? The hint tells me to put it inside and outside the do/while loop!?!?

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

The question is asking me to rewrite the code above as a do/while loop and I am stuck. Please help.

script.js 
var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
while ( secret !== "sesame" ) {
  secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");    
}
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

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points
hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Hi Chris Reich , I’m pretty sure the code challenge is asking you to use a do while loop which is like this:

do {
     //some code
} while (//some condition);

For you it would look like this:

var secret;
do {
     secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");    
} while (secret !== "sesame");

document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");

Also, you are using strange quotation marks which are causing a parse error.

Lydia Medina
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Lydia Medina
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,871 Points
Lydia Medina
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Lydia Medina
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,871 Points

Hi Chris, I hope this helps.

/* Don't forget your variable "var" */

do {
    code block to be executed
}
while (condition);

var secret; 
do {
      secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
} while ( secret !== "sesame" ) {

}
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
Chris Reich
Chris Reich
15,163 Points
Chris Reich
Chris Reich
15,163 Points

got it, thanks.

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

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