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Ellu
Ellu

Reputation: 1

Display specific season name when user input month

Hello I am new to JavaScript I am trying to get season name when user enters a month name. What am I doing wrong?

const takeInput = prompt("Enter the Season Name : ");
let seasons = {
  summer: ["may", "june", "july"],
  winter: ["november", "december", "january"],
};
takeInput.toLowerCase();

switch (takeInput) {
  case "summer":
    if (takeInput === seasons.summer) {
      console.log("summer");
    }
    break;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 273

Answers (2)

Abdullah Manafikhi
Abdullah Manafikhi

Reputation: 68

try this:

//instead of 
   if (takeInput === seasons.summer) {
     console.log("summer");
    }
    //do this:
   if(seasons.summer.find(season => season === takeInput)){
     console.log("summer")
   }

Upvotes: 0

RenaudC5
RenaudC5

Reputation: 3829

takeInput === seasons.summer

Here you're checking if the takeInput is equals to seasons.summer but the fact is that the takeInput is a string whereas seasons.summer is an array.

Then it will always return false

You're also combining a switch with and if. This is the wrong way of doing it. In fact, the switch will be equivalent to an if/else if/else.

For example :

const number = 1;
switch(number){
   case "1":
      console.log("odd")
      break;
   case "2":
      console.log("even")
      break;
   default:
      console.log('something else')
      break;
}

is equivalent to

const number = 1;
if(number === 1){
  console.log("odd")
} else if (number === 2){
  console.log("even")
} else {
  console.log('something else')
}

In your case, i thing you're looking for this :

const takeInput = prompt("Enter the Season Name : ");
let seasons = {
  summer: ["may", "june", "july"],
  winter: ["november", "december", "january"],
};

switch (takeInput.toLowerCase()) {
  case "summer":
    console.log("summers");
    console.log("month", seasons.summer)
    break;
}

Note : If you want to find the season by month. You can do it like this :

const takeInput = prompt("Enter the Month Name : ");
let seasons = {
  summer: ["may", "june", "july"],
  winter: ["november", "december", "january"],
};

Object.entries(seasons).forEach(([key, value]) => {
  if(value.includes(takeInput.toLowerCase())) console.log(key)
})

Upvotes: 1

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