Learn Basic JavaScript by Building a Role Playing Game - Step 146

[jaemaciel.55]

Tell us what’s happening: I can get to pass this ternary operator :

Step 146

If you play the game in its current state you might notice a bug. If your xp is high enough, the getMonsterAttackValue function will return a negative number, which will actually add to your total health when fighting a monster! You can fix this issue by using a ternary operatorto ensure negative values are not returned.

The ternary operator is a conditional operator and can be used as a one-line if-else statement. The syntax is: condition ? expressionIfTrue : expressionIfFalse.

Here is an example of returning a value using an if-else statement and a refactored example using a ternary operator:

if (num > 5) {
  return 'num is greater than 5';
} else {
  return 'num is smaller than or equal to 5';
}

return num > 5 ? 'num is greater than 5' : 'num is smaller than or equal to 5';

In getMonsterAttackValue, change return hit to a ternary operator that returns hit if hit is greater than 0, or returns 0 if it is not.

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function getMonsterAttackValue(level) {
  const hit = (level * 5) - (Math.floor(Math.random() * xp));
  console.log(hit);
  return hit > 0 ? 'hit' : '0';
}

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Learn Basic JavaScript by Building a Role Playing Game - Step 146

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[jwilkins.oboe]

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[ambradnum]

What error message are you getting? Looking carefully at the exact wording of the error message can often help.

[jaemaciel.55]

This:

You should use a ternary to return hit if hit is greater than 0

[ambradnum]

I have noticed in a lot of these steps that you must return exactly what they say - and often if they want a string they will say so