Solution: lb_imdb

Here is the commented solution for this project.

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In your projects directory, create a new file named lb_imdb.js.

$ touch lb_imdb.js

Open the file with in your text editor and declare two variables named genre and decade.

const genre = 'War';
const decade = 1990;

Use the switch statement to list all the possible values of the genre variable based on the provided movie list.

const genre = 'War';
const decade = 1990;

switch (genre) {
  case 'Action':
    //
    break;
  case 'War':
    //
    break;
  case 'Comedy':
    //
    break;
}

For each pattern of the switch statement, use the if...else if statements combined with the strict equality operator === to output a movie title based on the value of the decade variable.

const genre = 'War';
const decade = 1990;

switch (genre) {
  case 'Action':
    if (decade === 1990) {
      console.log('Timecop (1994) – 99 minutes');
    } else if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('Gladiator (2000) – 155 minutes');
    }
    break;
  case 'War':
    if (decade === 1990) {
      console.log('Saving Private Ryan (1998) – 169 minutes');
    } else if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('Black Hawk Down (2001) – 144 minutes');
    }
    break;
  case 'Comedy':
    if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('The Hangover (2009) – 100 minutes');
    }
    break;
}

Use the else statement to output an error message if the value of the decade variable doesn't match any of the tested values.

const genre = 'War';
const decade = 1990;

switch (genre) {
  case 'Action':
    if (decade === 1990) {
      console.log('Timecop (1994) – 99 minutes');
    } else if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('Gladiator (2000) – 155 minutes');
    } else {
      console.log('Error: Movie not found');
    }
    break;
  case 'War':
    if (decade === 1990) {
      console.log('Saving Private Ryan (1998) – 169 minutes');
    } else if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('Black Hawk Down (2001) – 144 minutes');
    } else {
      console.log('Error: Movie not found');
    }
    break;
  case 'Comedy':
    if (decade === 2000) {
      console.log('The Hangover (2009) – 100 minutes');
    } else {
      console.log('Error: Movie not found');
    }
    break;
}

Finally, add a default case that outputs an error message if the value of the genre variable is not in the list of patterns.

const genre = 'War';
const decade = 1990;

switch (genre) {
  case 'Action':
    // ...
    break;
  case 'War':
    // ...
    break;
  case 'Comedy':
    // ...
    break;
  default:
    console.log('Error: Movie not found');
    break;
}

💡 Here, the // ... comments are only used to "hide" the lines of code that were already written in the previous code snippets.