Return object values from multiple entries

BritneyCoding 0
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I've got some code there is handling an array of objects called into the function. I've got it to work mostly but when I call the function with a multiarray it doesn't return the expected values and just one of them.

Can you please fix the code and explain to me where I've gone wrong? Thank you!

function petPower(people) {
    let rest = people.reduce((a, b) => a && b.pets, []);
    return rest;
}

console.log(petPower([
    { name: 'Brain', pets: ['Doggy', 'Minuuy'] },
    { name: 'Carla', pets: ['Hammy', 'Hamishy'] },
  ]));

I want the above to return ['Doggy', 'Minuuy', 'Hammy', 'Hamishy'] but it's only returning Hammy and Hamishy.

function object javascript
3 Answers

You need to use Array.concat to append an array to another, not &&:

function petPower(people) {
    let rest = people.reduce((a, b) => a.concat(b.pets), []);
    return rest;
}

console.log(petPower([
    { name: 'Brain', pets: ['Doggy', 'Minuuy'] },
    { name: 'Carla', pets: ['Hammy', 'Hamishy'] },
  ]));

usergAKD0

The answer provided by @Nick is correct and to answer why you were getting the output Hammy and Hamishy is because when your code reaches the last object it has a previous value of ['Doggy', 'Minuuy'] and the current value is ['Hammy', 'Hamishy']. The condition that is executed is ['Doggy', 'Minuuy'] && ['Hammy', 'Hamishy'] and since these are truthy values the last truthy value is returned which in your case is ['Hammy', 'Hamishy']

userxTDj0

you can get vales like this with for in loop

and no need to mention exact keyfor access

const array = [
    { name: 'Brain', pets: ['Doggy', 'Minuuy'] },
    { name: 'Carla', pets: ['Hammy', 'Hamishy'] },
  ]

const getValues = (ar,temp)=>{
 const loopit = ar.map((e, i) => {
   for(x in e){
    if(Array.isArray(e[x])){
      temp.push(...e[x])
}
}})
return temp
}
console.log(getValues(array, []))

jsN00b0
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