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    copied!<p>Hi i'm a beginning programmer, i just started learning javascript. I am trying to build a simple javascript program that will prompt the user to select a name from a list of candidates, and then select which category they want to receive information about. Then program should then display that information. I wrote the code listed below, but from some reason it isn't working and i can't figure out way. Any help would be appreciated. thanks</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;interndatabase&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; //&lt;!CDATA[ //stores data about the applicants applicantName= new array ("Joe","Sarah", "Roger", "Mike"); applicantCategory= new array ("University","Year","SAT","GPA"); applicantInfo= new array ( new array ("Stanford","Senior","2250","3.6"), new array ("UC Berkeley","Junior","2100","3.9"), new array ("MIT","Junior","2200","3.3"), new array ("Carnegie Mellon","Sophomore","2150","3.4") ); //this function should evaluate said data function getInfo (){ var theApplicant=" "; var menuA="Please choose an applicant by typing a number\n"; menuA+="0)Joe\n"; menuA+="1)Sarah\n"; menuA+="2)Roger\n"; menuA+="3)Mike\n"; theApplicant=prompt(menuA); return theApplicant; var theCategory=" "; var menuB="Please Choose a category by typing a number\n"; menuB+="0)University\n"; menuB+="1)Year\n"; menuB+="2)SAT\n"; menuB+="3)GPA\n"; theCategory=prompt(menuB); return theCategory; }//end function //main code evaluates the result, and returns the correct info to the user function main () { var output=" "; var name=getInfo() var category=getInfo() var result=applicantInfo [name] [category]; output="The database belonging to" +applicantName; output+="registers" +result+ "in that category."; alert(output); }//end main &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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