Whats wrong with this whileloop?

Question

While I have a bit of experience in coding, I am very confused about why this code runs the wrong line of code. If you run this code in any compiler it returns 'hello' even though x is not equal to 4. If someone could explain, that would be great! Thanks.

let x = 5;
let y = 6;

while (x=5) {
   if (x=4) {
       console.log('hello');
       break;
}
   else if (y=6) {
        console.log('how are you?')
        break
} else {
        console.log('potato')
}

}

Well, for starters the indentation :) Make life easier on yourself. — Charlie Schliesser, Nov 12 '20 at 19:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '20 at 19:56

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Well x=4 will evaluate to true, because its an assignment operation. You're looking for x==4.

answered Nov 12 '20 at 19:56

jmkmay

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Whats wrong with this whileloop?

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