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JavaScript

Posted by Subhadeep Ray
Subhadeep Ray
12,933 Points

Javascript Loops, Arrays and Objects - Final Solution to the student search problem

This is the final solution where we can search by a student name and it will display all the students with the searched name:

Here's how my version of student_report.js file looks like:

var message = '';
var student;
var search;

function print(message) {
  var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
  outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}

function getStudentReport(student) {
  var report = '<h2>Student: ' + student.name + '</h2>';
  report += '<p>Track: ' + student.track + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Points: ' + student.points + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Achievements: ' + student.achievements + '</p>';
  return report;
}

while (true) {
  search = prompt("Enter a student name to search. Ex: Jody (or type 'quit' to exit)");
  if (search == null || search.toLowerCase() === 'quit') {
    break;
  }

  message = '';
  for (var i = 0, length = students.length; i < length; i += 1) {
    student = students[i];
    if (student.name === search) {
      message += getStudentReport(student);
    }
  }

  if (message === '') {
    // No student found
    message = "<p>Sorry! No student record found for '" + search + "'</p>";
  }

  print(message);
}
Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

//Fixed Code Presentation