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JavaScript Exit Out of the Loop – One Solution

Posted by Cool Beans
Cool Beans
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I don't understand this path, perhaps you can help

here's my code: 

const main = document.querySelector('main');
const randomNumber = 10;
let guess;
let attempts = 0;

do {

  guess = prompt("What's the number?")  
  attempts++
} while(parseInt(guess) !== randomNumber || attempts < 10);

main.innerHTML = `It took you ${attempts} attempts to guess number ${randomNumber}`;

Now, when it comes to this part - while(parseInt(guess) !== randomNumber || attempts < 10)

it's supposed to work, like a user either does 10 guesses and then gets the message or he guesses the right answer and the message pops up.

Why do i need to use if else function here?

1 Answer

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
Treehouse Staff

Hey Cool Beans 👋

Your code should definitely work in terms of breaking out of the loop! As always in coding there are a lot of different ways to accomplish something and the solution shown in the video is just one of them. Your solution seems perfectly valid to me too 😃

The only difference between your code and Guils solution is the messaging to the user if they fail to guess the number within 10 attempts.

Hope this clears things up! 🙂