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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by Dao Tran
Dao Tran
687 Points

Why are the extra "}" needed to run the program??

I was in AGONY for 30 minutes ripping my hair out trying to figure out why my prompt box wouldn't pop up.

I checked the spellings and the syntax over and over again....UNTIL I FOUND THE PROBLEM!

In the video demonstration, on line 10 and line 15 are the extra "}" before the next "}" right in front of the "else if".

I input them in and voila, it worked.

But why do I need to put an extra "}" in for it to work? The teacher didn't need to add an extra "}" at the end of line 5 in order for it to work.
Why are line 10 and line 15 special?

2 Answers

Hugo Paigneau
Hugo Paigneau
4,253 Points
Hugo Paigneau
Hugo Paigneau
4,253 Points

once you openned a "{", you need to close it with } In line 5 there was a simple if statement so : if{ }

But line 10 and 15, there are another if inside the if statement so :

if{ if{ } }

Dao Tran
Dao Tran
687 Points
Dao Tran
Dao Tran
687 Points

ah! THANK YOU HUGO!