twhite96
6/21/2017 - 4:13 AM

A gist to explain the difference between Number and parseInt for coercing and parsing strings to numbers

A gist to explain the difference between Number and parseInt for coercing and parsing strings to numbers

number.js
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// Number
var secretNumber = 4;

var stringGuess = prompt("Guess a number");
var guess = Number(stringGuess);

// parseInt
var secretNumber = 7;

var stringGuess = prompt("Guess a number");
var guess = parseInt(stringGuess);