{"id":6033,"date":"2022-09-01T01:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-does-break-not-allow-me-to-exit-my-loop-like-it-should\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T01:10:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:40:32","slug":"solved-why-does-break-not-allow-me-to-exit-my-loop-like-it-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-does-break-not-allow-me-to-exit-my-loop-like-it-should\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Why does &#8220;break;&#8221; not allow me to exit my loop like it should?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-54082135\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"54082135\" data-parentid=\"54082040\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Put the break inside the loop\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"snippet\" data-lang=\"js\" data-hide=\"false\" data-console=\"true\" data-babel=\"false\">\n<div class=\"snippet-code\">\n<pre class=\"snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override\"><code>var words = [\r\n            \"javascript\",\r\n            \"monkey\",\r\n            \"amazing\",\r\n            \"pancake\"\r\n        ];\r\nvar word = words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)];\r\nvar answerArray = [];\r\nfor (var i = 0; i &lt; word.length; i++) {\r\n            answerArray[i] = \"_\";\r\n        }\r\nvar remainingLetters = word.length;\r\nwhile (remainingLetters &gt; 0) {\r\n            alert(answerArray.join(\" \"));\r\n            var guess = prompt(\"Guess a letter, or click Cancel to stop playing.\");\r\nif (guess === null) {\r\n    break;\r\n} else if (guess.length !== 1) {\r\n    alert(\"Please enter a single letter.\");\r\n} else {\r\n    for (var j = 0; j &lt; word.length; j++) {\r\n        if (word[j] === guess) {\r\n            answerArray[j] = guess;\r\n            remainingLetters--;\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n        }\r\n\r\nalert(answerArray.join(\" \"));\r\nalert(\"Good job! 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