Looping through object literal with nested functions

Question

I'm trying to loop through an object literal and select just one of the keys and return it's value, which will be a function. My problem is, that I can't get the loop to return just one value - it always returns all of the values (functions). I noticed that if I nest the function inside of the object literal (see foo), then it works better, but still not looping through.

Here is the JS fiddle.

var functions = {
   blah: blah(),
   foo: function() { console.log("foo"); }
};


for(var key in functions){
   if(functions[key] == 'foo') {
   console.log("hello"); //if functions contains the key 'foo' say hi
  }
}
function blah () {alert("blah")};

functions.foo();

I don't see what the code has to do with your question. – melpomene Jun 24 '16 at 17:30 — melpomene, Jun 24 '16 at 17:30
Sorry, I was new to programming. I thought it might help. – MortiestMorty Nov 29 '16 at 16:43 — MortiestMorty, Nov 29 '16 at 16:43

epascarello · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-24T17:32:17.313

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You are not checking for the key, you are checking a string against a function.

for(var key in functions){
    if (key==="foo") {
        console.log("hello");
    }
}

another way is to use Object.keys()

var keys = Object.keys(functions);
if (keys.indexOf("foo")>-1) {
    console.log("hello");
}

edited Jun 24 '16 at 17:32

answered Jun 24 '16 at 17:29

epascarello

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There was a another post where there was an argument over using === vs == and I did not realize I fat fingered it. ;) Thought that hold argument was coming to a new thread. (3.5 more hours until 5) – epascarello Jun 24 '16 at 17:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '16 at 17:41

in your condition if(functions[key] == 'foo')

the functions[key] returns a function. the key itself is already a literal that can be compare to 'foo'

var functions = {
   blah: blah(),
   foo: function() { console.log("foo"); }
};


for(var key in functions){
   if(key == 'foo') {
   console.log("hello"); //if functions contains the key 'foo' say hi
  }
}
function blah () {alert("blah")};

functions.foo();

Looping through object literal with nested functions

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