User input in Node.js

Question

I am writing a program which will create an array of numbers, and double the content of each array, and storing the result as key/value pair. Earlier, I had hardcoded the array, so everything was fine.

Now, I have changed the logic a bit, I want to take the input from users and then, store the value in an array.

My problem is that I am not able to figure out, how to do this using node.js. I have installed the prompt module using npm install prompt, and also, have gone through the documentation, but nothing is working.

I know that I am making a small mistake here.

Here's my code:

//Javascript program to read the content of array of numbers
//Double each element
//Storing the value in an object as key/value pair.

//var Num=[2,10,30,50,100]; //Array initialization

var Num = new Array();
var i;
var obj = {}; //Object initialization

function my_arr(N) { return N;} //Reads the contents of array


function doubling(N_doubled) //Doubles the content of array
{
   doubled_number = my_arr(N_doubled);   
   return doubled_number * 2;
}   

//outside function call
var prompt = require('prompt');

prompt.start();

while(i!== "QUIT")
{
    i = require('prompt');
    Num.push(i);
}
console.log(Num);

for(var i=0; i< Num.length; i++)
 {
    var original_value = my_arr(Num[i]); //storing the original values of array
    var doubled_value = doubling(Num[i]); //storing the content multiplied by two
    obj[original_value] = doubled_value; //object mapping
}

console.log(obj); //printing the final result as key/value pair

Kindly help me in this, Thanks.

Answer 1

For those that do not want to import yet another module you can use the standard nodejs process.

function prompt(question, callback) {
    var stdin = process.stdin,
        stdout = process.stdout;

    stdin.resume();
    stdout.write(question);

    stdin.once('data', function (data) {
        callback(data.toString().trim());
    });
}

Use case

prompt('Whats your name?', function (input) {
    console.log(input);
    process.exit();
});