I cannot for the life of me figure out how to close the prompt altogether upon pressing cancel in my code for a guessing game. I've tried several things, but each time either the code ignores what I'm trying to do, or ends in an error. Here's the code in question:
let numGuess = prompt (`Guess the number I am thinking of (between 1 and 10):`);
let num = (4);
let numTries = 1
console.log(numGuess);
numGuess = parseInt(numGuess)
if (prompt == null) {
alert (`Press F5 to play again.`)
}
if (numGuess === num) {
alert (`Correct! You guessed the number in 1 try! Press F5 to play again.`);
}
else while ((numGuess !== num) && (numTries <3))
{
numTries = numTries++
alert (`Incorrect guess. Try again.`)
}
Check for the user input value, not for prompt. And also don't use while loop here .Loop is used for the traverse.
let numGuess = prompt (`Guess the number I am thinking of (between 1 and 10):`);
let num = (4);
let numTries = 1
console.log(numGuess);
numGuess = parseInt(numGuess)
if (!numGuess) {
alert (`Press F5 to play again.`)
}
else if (numGuess === num) {
alert (`Correct! You guessed the number in 1 try! Press F5 to play again.`);
}
else{
numTries = numTries++
alert (`Incorrect guess. Try again.`)
}The main issue with your code is using "++" after numTries which make the numTries variable value doesn't change and the while loop continues working without stopping, you need to insert it before. ex:
++numTries
The code below is a working example of what you want to do.
let numGuess;
let numTries = 0;
let num = 4;
const guessFunction = () => {
if (numTries >= 3) {
alert("Sorry you Failed in the 3 tries! Press F5 to play again.");
return;
}
numGuess = parseInt(
prompt(`Guess the number I am thinking of (between 1 and 10):`)
);
numTries = ++numTries
if (numGuess === num) {
alert(`Correct! You guessed the number in ${numTries} try! Press F5 to play again.`);
return;
}
if(numTries <= 2) {
alert(`Incorrect guess. Try again.`);
}
guessFunction()
};
guessFunction()