Problem with variables

[zombay]

I need a script which by dialog box takes first the number of the
marks of a student and then calculate what is the avarege mark. I
write such a script (The one which is above) but instead of treating
the result of the prompt as numerical it treats them like string.
Where is my mistake?

<script>
MarkN = 0;
MarkC = 0;
Total = '';

MarkN = prompt ("What is the count of Your marks?",0);
i = 0;
while (i<MarkN) {
MarkC = prompt ("What is your mark?",0);
Total = MarkC + Total;
i++;
}
MarkC = Total/MarkN;

</script>

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Problem with variables

zombay wrote:[color=blue]
> I need a script which by dialog box takes first the number of the
> marks of a student and then calculate what is the avarege mark. I
> write such a script (The one which is above) but instead of treating
> the result of the prompt as numerical it treats them like string.
> Where is my mistake?
>[/color]

That's because prompt returns a string, which should be converted to a
number before you can use it.
[color=blue]
> MarkN = prompt ("What is the count of Your marks?",0);[/color]

Change this into:
MarkN = +prompt ("What is the count of Your marks?",0);

The `+` in front of prompt converts the string into a number. You should
also implement an additional check for the received input, because you will
now get a devision by zero error when 0 is entered.


JW