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JavaScript

Posted by Tim Williams
Tim Williams
Courses Plus Student 9,267 Points

Confirming the origin of arguments passed to printMessage

In "Capturing Command Line Arguments" for Node.js how do we know to use "profile". badges or "profile".points? Raw data shows "points" and "badges" but not "profile: points" or anything to let us know that points is a child of the parent named "profile"? I'm pretty sure I missed it in some obvious way but I looked and wasn't sure.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Both "badges" and "points" are properties of the JSON object so the only parent they might have would be the one you assign the output of the parse to. So if your object is named "profile" then they would become "profile.bages" and "profile.points" respectively.

Tim Williams
Tim Williams
Courses Plus Student 9,267 Points

Totally overlooked the declaration in my own code!!! I knew it was something foolish. Thank you!