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JavaScript

Brad Horvath
Brad Horvath
3,845 Points

Need help with student record search challenge in JS

var students = [
  { 
    name: "Bill",
    track: "iOS",
    achievements: 148,
    points: 15667
  },
  { 
    name: "Amanda",
    track: "Web Design",
    achievements: 92,
    points: 10464
  },
  { 
    name: "Greg",
    track: "Front End Development",
    achievements: 56,
    points: 7584
  },
    { 
    name: "Tommy",
    track: "Web Design",
    achievements: 48,
    points: 4473
  },
  { 
    name: "Mark",
    track: "iOS",
    achievements: 83 ,
    points: 8573
  }

];

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('Search student records: type a name [Jody] (or type "quit" to end)');
  if (search === null || search.toLowerCase() === "quit") {
    break;
  }
  for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i += 1) {
  student = students[i];
  if ( student.name.toLowerCase === search.toLowerCase ) {
     message = getStudentReport( student);
    print(message);
      } 
  }
}

My code isn't working for some reason. It generates the last object of the array for some reason even when the name doesn't match the name searched in the prompt. Does anyone see any problems that might be causing this?

1 Answer

toLowerCase is a string function (or method), so you need to call it by putting an empty set of parentheses after it.

Actually, it seems you've done that the first time you used it, but not the other two.