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JavaScript

Ivana Lescesen
Ivana Lescesen
19,442 Points

Why won't this work? Thank you for your help :)

         var students = [ 
  { 
   name: 'Dave',
    track: 'Front End Development',
    achievements: 158,
    points: 14730
  },
  {
    name: 'Jody',
    track: 'iOS Development with Swift',
    achievements: '175',
    points: '16375'
  },
  {
    name: 'Jordan',
    track: 'PHP Development',
    achievements: '55',
    points: '2025'
  },
  {
    name: 'John',
    track: 'Learn WordPress',
    achievements: '40',
    points: '1950'
  },
  {
    name: 'Trish',
    track: 'Rails Development',
    achievements: '5',
    points: '350'
  }
];


var search;
var message = '';

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



while (true) {

  search = prompt("Search for a student. Type a name of a student or 'quit' to exit");
   search = search.toLowerCase();
  if ( search === 'quit') {
     break;
   } else if ( students.name === search) {
    message = studentListing (data);
      print(message);
  }
   else {
      print( search + ' is not a student'); 
    }
 }


function studentListing (data) {
  for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i+= 1) {
    var html = " ";
    html += "<h2>Student: " + students[i].name + "</h2>";
    html += "<h3>Track: " + students[i].track + "</h3>";
    html += "<h3>Achievements: " + students[i].achievements + "</h3>";
    html += "<h3>Points: " + students[i].points + "</h3>";
    return html; }
}

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