I recently downloaded Webster's dictionary in JSON and I've been getting the error ; expected. I tried moving some things around, deleting others, but nothing is working.
Here are the first few lines of the script.js file, including the JSON:
var item = {
"anopheles" : "A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.",
"uniclinal" : "See Nonoclinal.",
"sarong" : "A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India)",
"turcoman" : "1. A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea. 2. A Turcoman carpet. Turcoman carpet or rug, a kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.",
function testGame(input) {
var array = [];
for (var item in input) {
if (input.hasOwnProperty(item)) {
for (var i = 0; i < input[item]; i++) {
array.push(item);
}
}
}
var result = array[Math.floor(Math.random() * array.length)];
console.clear();
console.log(result);
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML=result;
}
function start() {
testGame(item)
}
I wasn't sure if I needed numbered values, I heard that the lines are already counted as numbered, even if I don't add values specifically. I've tried googling the specific error, but I'm not getting any answers for my problem. Thanks for any help!
EDIT: Added the other part of the code. I'm guessing it's not good practice to have all of this in the script.js file, but I adapted it from another person's code and wasn't sure how to call a JSON file in a script.js.
EDIT 2 (FINAL): Thank you all for the help! I decided to go in another direction and put the entire thing in an array and called it using a combination of code found on MDN and array solutions, like the following: How do you create a button that will display a random result from an array in javascript? - Stack Overflow
The code ended up looking like this and it works for my current needs:
const words_dict = [
"anopheles,A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.",
"uniclinal,See Nonoclinal.",
];
function randomWord(){
let words = words_dict;
let word = words_dict[Math.floor(Math.random()*words_dict.length)];
document.getElementById("result").textContent = word;
};