Newbie having trouble with 'while loop'

**Terri530** · 11-19-2012, 09:10 AM

Really getting frustrated with this homework assignment.
Screwed up my entire weekend and it is due tomorrow.
I have this script starting over so that another food bill could be tried again.
The problem has been that to opt out of the script and discontinue the viewer must type -999

Code:

main();
function main()
{
	var bill = purchasePrice();  		 //price on the food bill
	caculateTotalBill(bill);		 //Tip plus food bill
	
}

function purchasePrice()
{
 pp = parseFloat(prompt("Input how much your meal purchase is. To exit type -999", ""));
	var MINPRICE = .10;
	var MAXPRICE = 1000;
	
	//Validate the inputted pp
	if (pp = -999)
	{exit}

	while((isNaN(pp)) || (pp < MINPRICE) || (pp > MAXPRICE))
	
	{		  
		alert("Invalid purchase price inputted. Please reenter.");
		pp = parseFloat(prompt("Input how much your meal purchase is", ""));
	}
	
	return pp;
}

function caculateTotalBill(bill)
{
//MODULE caculateTotalBill()
	var	TIP	=  0.15;				 //Going rate for tip
	var TAX = 	0.07;				//tax
	var theTip = bill * TIP;
	var theTax = bill * TAX;
	var totalBill = bill + theTip + theTax;
	outputInfo(bill, theTip, theTax, totalBill);
	
}

function outputInfo (bill, theTip, theTax, totalBill)
{
	alert("Meal purchase price: " + "\t\t" + bill.toFixed(2) + "\n" +
	      "Tip:  " + "\t\t\t\t\t\t" + theTip.toFixed(2) + "\n" +
		  "Tax:  " + "\t\t\t\t\t" + theTax.toFixed(2) + "\n" +
		  "Your total bill will be: " + "\t\t" + totalBill.toFixed(2));
		  start(bill);
}
function start(bill)
{
while (bill != -999)
{
main();
}
alert("Thanks! See ya!");
}