I’m trying to write a basic function to “scramble” (rearrange the letters of) a word. My thinking was to: take the word as an argument use a loop to assign the string to an array use another loop to go through the array, randomly picking items from the array and pushing them to another array, and …

What you can try is instead of using wordArr.length for (j = 0; j < wordArr.length; j++) Use word.length for (j = 0; j < word.length; j++) because the problem is that you’re asking for the second loop to grab a not finished array from the first loop because the first loop will run and then the…

Trouble with basic function to scramble word

JavaScript

Catalactics May 8, 2020, 12:22pm 4

Owh, I didn’t even noticed that he didn’t declare those variables.

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Trouble with basic function to scramble word

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