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Chris Mason
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 24,526 PointsHow to group select and change the values of a common property across each object in the same array?
Hi - is there a way to select and change at the same time the values inside properties common to a series of objects inside an array? For example, in the code below is there a way to access the dinner property of both the objects below, changing the value to "Tacos" at the same time?
var quotesArray = [
{
name: "Bob",
dinner: "Burger"
},
{
name: "Jim",
dinner: "Pizza"
},
];
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! Not to my knowledge, no. However you can go through the list one key at a time and change all those keys to the same thing. Now it's possible that there's some trick to doing that that I'm not aware of. But I took the liberty of writing a function that does what you're asking. But there (to my knowledge) is no group select.
var quotesArray = [
{
name: "Bob",
dinner: "Burger"
},
{
name: "Jim",
dinner: "Pizza"
},
];
function newDinner(myArr) {
for (var key in myArr){
myArr[key]["dinner"] = "tacos";
console.log(myArr[key]["name"]);
console.log(myArr[key]["dinner"]);
}
}
newDinner(quotesArray);
Hope this helps!
Chris Mason
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 24,526 PointsThank you @Jennifer Nordell for the quick and helpful answer :)