From 6a3a1ec4dee171930eb702e9e56fe297678a4040 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ItsAddi <fowler.addison13@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:53:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed conversions and added examples

---
 ...t-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js | 33 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/explicit-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js b/explicit-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js
index ede0ccd..97d8294 100644
--- a/explicit-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js
+++ b/explicit-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js
@@ -19,14 +19,41 @@ Use console.log() to clearly show the before-and-after type conversions.
 */
 
 
-let result = "5" - 2;
+let result = Number("5") - 2; // I changed "5" to a number, just so that it was easier to understand that with was a math equation
 console.log("The result is: " + result);
 
-let isValid = Boolean("false");
+let isValid = Boolean(""); // the string "false" actually comes out to be true because it is a non-empty string. I ended up just making it an empy string.
 if (isValid) {
     console.log("This is valid!");
+} else {   //I added this because I assumed the code was supposed to output as false and it needed a worded output.
+  console.log("This is NOT valid");
 }
 
 let age = "25";
-let totalAge = age + 5;
+let totalAge = Number(age) + 5; // I changed the age to a number
 console.log("Total Age: " + totalAge);
+
+
+//My own examples:
+
+console.log("------Implicit Type Conversion------");
+
+let catAge = "8";
+let years = 4;
+let combined = catAge + years;
+
+console.log("Combinded (string + number): " + combined);
+
+console.log("------Explicit Type Conversion------");
+
+let bookPages = "436";
+let bookPageNum = Number(bookPages);
+
+console.log("Page string to page number: " + bookPageNum);
+
+console.log("------Edge Case------");
+
+let mysteryValue;
+let mysteryResult = Number(mysteryValue);
+
+console.log("Converting undefined to number: " + mysteryResult);
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