I am new to JavaScript and is going through the tutorials here on www.codeacademy.com. I am trying to push a string into a new array however i am getting an error when i run the code
saying
"Oops, try again! It looks like your second 'for' loop isn't pushing values to the hits array. Make sure it's working properly and that myWord text appears somewhere in the text variable."
I have looked over the code but have no clue as to where the fault is?
var someText = "This is some text and i am trying to push this text into a new string containing the string text.";
var myWord = "text";
var hits = [];
for (var i = 0; i < someText.length; i++) {
if (someText[i] === myWord[0]) {
for (var j = i; j < someText[i] + myWord.length; j++) {
hits = [];
hits.push("text");
hits[0]; //equals 'text'
}
}
}
any ideas how to get this to work?
You reset hits at each iteration.
Remove hits = [] in your loop.
Your second loop iteration is doing an illegal comparison j < someText[i] + myWord.length;. Remove that someText[i] from the mix and it'll work: j < myWord.length
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Trying to fetch and display data from an array in a for loop but it's only showing one entry. I'm executing this in a trigger for Storyline and when viewing Storyline in the browser I don't get any help from the inspector.
function showInfo(data) {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar("name", data[0].name + "\n");
}
}
Seems like something simple to do but not sure whats going on. Perhaps Articulate Storyline adds an extra layer of issues not forseen.
but it's only showing one entry
this is because you're accessing at 0 index for each. You need to use i to correctly iterate over every element.
see:
function showInfo(data) {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar("name", data[i].name + "\n");
}
}
I have a given word, that I want to match against a given list of words, mainList, and establish which words of that given list are anagrams of the given word, and add them to another list, subList.
I feel like my method to do this is fine, but it returns an unexpected result.
For example...
var word = 'master';
var mainList = ['stream', 'pidgeon', 'maters'];
var subList = [];
Then I take the word, split to an array of letters, alphabetise, and join back into a string. With this string I should be able match against any possible anagrams (which I will covert in the same way).
var mainSorted = [];
for (i = 0; i < word.length; i++) {
mainSorted = word.split('').sort().join();
}
This is where it goes wrong. I loop through the mainList array trying to establish if a given item, when converted, matches the original. If so, I want to push the word to the subList array.
for (var i = 0; i < mainList.length; i++) {
var subSorted = mainList[i].split('').sort().join;
if (mainSorted === subSorted) {
subList.push(mainList[i])
}
}
return subList;
...and the value I expect to see for subList is: ['stream', 'maters']
Yet I am returned an empty array instead.
I've gone through this so many times and I cannot see what's going wrong, would really appreciate some help!
Also, I'm aware there's probably more eloquent methods to do this (and I welcome any suggestions) but primarily I want to see where this is going wrong.
Thanks in advance.
You forgot () at the end of join
var subSorted = mainList[i].split('').sort().join;
should be
var subSorted = mainList[i].split('').sort().join();
One non-issue is
for (i = 0; i < word.length; i++) {
mainSorted = word.split('').sort().join();
}
doesnt need to be in a loop
mainSorted = word.split('').sort().join();
alone suffices
as a bonus, here's a tidier way of doing what you are doing
var word = 'master';
var mainList = ['stream', 'pidgeon', 'maters'];
var mainSorted = word.split('').sort().join();
return mainList.filter(function(sub) {
return sub.split('').sort().join() == mainSorted;
});
Meet with a really weird javascript problem. See my codes below:
function initBadScripts(controlArray) {
var scriptsLine = prompt("Please enter the bad scripts", "debug");
if (scriptsLine != null) {
var pattern = /;/;
var nameList = scriptsLine.split(pattern);
alert(nameList+" "+nameList.length);
for(var counter = 0; counter < nameList.length; counter++){
controlArray[counter][0]=true;
controlArray[counter][1]= new RegExp(nameList[counter],"g");
alert(controlArray[counter][0]);
}
}
alert("wtf!");
}
var controlArray = [[]];
initBadScripts(controlArray);
I defined a function, and call that function. A 2-dimensional array called 'controlArray' is defined with no value. Basically, the function check the user's input and use regular expression to make a 'namelist'. For example, if the user type in
ExampleOne;ExampleTwo
The function will create an array called 'nameList'
nameList=[ExampleOne,ExampleTwo];
Then I want to make a dynamical initialization of the 2-dimensional array called 'controlArray', according to the length of nameList. However this only works fine the nameList'length is 1. If it exceeds one (the user type in 'ExampleOne;ExampleTwo'), the ExampleTwo does not go into the array, and the
alert("wtf");
doesn't run at all. This seems that there is already an error before it. Any comments?
JavaScript doesn't have a true 2-dimensional array. Rather, you're putting a second array inside the first array. Change it to this:
...
for(var counter = 0; counter < nameList.length; counter++){
controlArray[counter] = [true, new RegExp(nameList[counter],"g")];
...
Yes or you declare your variable like that:
var controlArray = [[],[]];
or
var controlArray = new Array(2);
for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
controlArray[i] = new Array(2);
}
I'm a beginner with javascript, and after searching I am still running into an error with this part of my code.
I have an array:
var choices = [ '$5/hr', '$6/hr', '$7/hr', '$10/hr' ];
And I want to use a regular expression to return the array as integers so I can use it for further calculations. I know that replace only works on strings and not an array so I have tried the following:
// Strip other characters and return only integers.
for (var i = 0; i < choices.length; i++) {
choices[i] = choices[i].replace(/[^0-9.]/g, '');
}
EDIT: Apparently the issue is somewhere else in my code. Maybe this needs to be wrapped in another function?
Here is the function that this resides in. This function receives an array as a value and will calculate an average using the array received and the choices array which I cannot convert to integers.
// Choice values
var ul = document.getElementById('Results');
var choices = [];
// Get li element choices
for (var i = 0; i < ul.childNodes.length; i++) {
if (ul.childNodes[i].nodeName == "LI") {
choices.push(ul.childNodes[i]);
}
}
// Strip the last element in array since it is the result container.
choices.splice(-1,1);
// Strip other characters and return only integers.
for (var i = 0; i < choices.length; i++) {
choices[i] = choices[i].replace(/[^0-9.]/g, '');
}
Thanks!
The issue is that you are pushing the nodes in your array, not their text content. Try this instead:
choices.push(ul.childNodes[i].textContent)
or:
choices.push(ul.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue)
I'm trying to change the value of an input field with Javascript.
I tried everything, but nothing seems to works. I tried putting the 5 between quotation marks and using jquery. I also double-checked the array and everything.
Here is the input code:
<input type="number" id="id_[SOME_ID_HERE]" value="0">
and the loop used to update the values.
for (var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.length; i++) {
var val = shoppingCart[i];
document.getElementById("id_" + val.substring(3)).value = 5;
}
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zkTud/
EDIT: Seems like it doesn't work with type="text" as well...
EDIT2: Thank you everyone who answered. My problem was actually something else.
The input was loaded from another page, and it took time and the for loop I had problem with (see above) was executed before the file was done loading.
All I did was to move the for loop as is to the callback function and it works now.
Thanks anyways!
I really appreciate the help I'm getting in this site! :)
The problem is that your call to substring is returning too much of the string, so there are no elements found by getElementById. Change it to this:
for(var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.length; i++) {
var val = shoppingCart[i];
document.getElementById("id_" + val.substring(5)).value = 5;
}
Here's an updated fiddle.
The substring method (when called with one argument) returns the characters from the index specified to the end of the string. Since you are specifying index 3, you get "d_1", "d_2" etc. when actually you just want the number.
Alternatively, you could of course change the string to which you append the substring, but I think that would be more confusing to read (not immediately obvious which element will be returned):
document.getElementById("i" + val.substring(3)).value = 5;
demo http://jsfiddle.net/bY4EV/6/
sustring(3) gives d_1 : How to substring in jquery
hope this helps
code
var shoppingCart = new Array();
shoppingCart[0] = "prod_1";
shoppingCart[1] = "prod_3";
shoppingCart[2] = "prod_2";
for(var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.length; i++) {
var val = shoppingCart[i];
$("#id_" + val.substring(5)).val("5");
}
Check this, JSFiddle , Updated and corrected your problem.
Code:
var shoppingCart = new Array();
shoppingCart[0] = "prod_1";
shoppingCart[1] = "prod_3";
shoppingCart[2] = "prod_2";
for(var i = 0; i < shoppingCart.length; i++) {
var val = shoppingCart[i];
$("#id" + val.substring(4)).val( "5");
}