Javascript concatenating numbers, not adding up

Question

It keeps concatenating my numbers into 2111 instead of 5. Why is this? I\'ve tried using parseInt with no luck. res3 btw represents a query into my database that I\'m execut

Answer 1

Yeah, it's reading them as strings. I find that a dirty, awful hack to get them interpreted as numbers is to take x += y and change it to x += y / 1.0 (or / 1 for integer). Usually does the trick.