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JavaScript Quiz

What is the difference between parseInt and Number?

Do you know what will be the output of this code?

JavaScript 
console.log(parseInt("08.9px"), Number("08.9px"));
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The answer is 8 NaN.

parseInt parses as far as it can and stops at ., so it returns 8. Number requires the whole string to be a valid number, and "px" makes it NaN.

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