How to find a value in an array of objects in JavaScript

Question

I have an array of objects  Object        1     name   bob   dinner   pizza       2     name   john   dinner   sushi       3     name   larry  dinner   hummus      I want to be able to search the object array for where the key is  quot dinner quot   and see if it matches  quot sushi quot   I know jQuery has   inArray  but it doesn t seem to work on arrays of objects  Or maybe I m wrong  indexOf also seems to only work on one array level  Is there no function or existing code for this

User · Answer

If You want to find a specific object via search function just try something like this:

    function findArray(value){

        let countLayer = dataLayer.length;
        for(var x = 0 ; x < countLayer ; x++){

            if(dataLayer[x].user){
                let newArr = dataLayer[x].user;
                let data = newArr[value];
                return data;
            }

        }

        return null;

    }

    findArray("id");

This is an example object:

layerObj = {
    0: { gtm.start :1232542, event: "gtm.js"},
    1: { event: "gtm.dom", gtm.uniqueEventId: 52},
    2: { visitor id: "abcdef2345"},
    3: { user: { id: "29857239", verified: "Null", user_profile: "Personal", billing_subscription: "True", partners_user: "adobe"}
}

Code will iterate and find the "user" array and will search for the object You seek inside.

My problem was when the array index changed every window refresh and it was either in 3rd or second array, but it does not matter.

Worked like a charm for Me!

In Your example it is a bit shorter:

function findArray(value){

    let countLayer = Object.length;
    for(var x = 0 ; x < countLayer ; x++){

        if(Object[x].dinner === value){
            return Object[x];
        }

    }

    return null;

}

findArray('sushi');

User · Answer

If you have an array such as  var people          name    bob    dinner    pizza          name    john    dinner    sushi          name    larry    dinner    hummus         You can use the filter method of an Array object   people filter function  person    return person dinner     sushi             gt      name    john    dinner    sushi       In newer JavaScript implementations you can use a function expression   people filter p   gt  p dinner     sushi          gt      name    john    dinner    sushi         You can search for people who have  dinner    sushi  using a map  people map function  person      if  person dinner     sushi         return person     else       return null              gt   null     name    john    dinner    sushi     null    or a reduce  people reduce function  sushiPeople  person      if  person dinner     sushi         return sushiPeople concat person       else       return sushiPeople                  gt      name    john    dinner    sushi       I m sure you are able to generalize this to arbitrary keys and values

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I had to search a nested sitemap structure for the first leaf item that machtes a given path  I came up with the following code just using  map    filter   and  reduce  Returns the last item found that matches the path  c   var sitemap       nodes                items     path    a       path    b                        items     path    c       path    d                        items     path    c       path    d                   const item   sitemap nodes    map n   gt  n items filter i   gt  i path       c       reduce  last  now    gt  last concat now      reduce  last  now    gt  now

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jQuery has a built-in method jQuery grep that works similarly to the ES5 filter function from  adamse s Answer and should work fine on older browsers   Using adamse s example   var peoples          name    bob    dinner    pizza          name    john    dinner    sushi          name    larry    dinner    hummus         you can do the following  jQuery grep peoples  function  person    return person dinner     sushi             gt      name    john    dinner    sushi

User · Answer

If you re going to be doing this search frequently  consider changing the format of your object so dinner actually is a key   This is kind of like assigning a primary clustered key in a database table   So  for example     Obj      pizza       name     bob      sushi       name     john        You can now easily access it like this  Object  sushi    name    Or if the object really is this simple  just  name  in the object   you could just change it to   Obj      pizza     bob    sushi     john      And then access it like  Object  sushi     It s obviously not always possible or to your advantage to restructure your data object like this  but the point is  sometimes the best answer is to consider whether your data object is structured the best way   Creating a key like this can be faster and create cleaner code

User · Answer

There s already a lot of good answers here so why not one more  use a library like lodash or underscore     obj        1     name    bob    dinner    pizza        2     name    john    dinner    sushi        3     name    larry   dinner    hummus         where obj   dinner   pizza     gt  gt     name   bob   dinner   pizza

User · Answer

You can find the object in array with Alasql library   var data       name    bob    dinner    pizza       name    john    dinner    sushi            name    larry   dinner    hummus        var res   alasql  SELECT   FROM   WHERE dinner  sushi    data      Try this example in jsFiddle

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var getKeyByDinner   function obj  dinner        var returnKey   -1         each obj  function key  info            if  info dinner    dinner               returnKey   key             return false                              return returnKey              jsFiddle   So long as -1 isn t ever a valid key

User · Answer

You can use a simple for in loop   for  prop in Obj       if  Obj prop   dinner        sushi                Do stuff with found object  E g  put it into an array          arrFoo push Obj prop              The following fiddle example puts all objects that contain dinner sushi into an array   https   jsfiddle net 3asvkLn6 1

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We use object-scan for most of our data processing  It s conceptually very simple  but allows for a lot of cool stuff  Here is how you would solve your question  x000D   x000D     const objectScan   require  object-scan     const findDinner    dinner  data    gt  objectScan            abort  true    rtn   value     filterFn     value      gt  value dinner     dinner    data    const data     1    name   bob   dinner   pizza     2    name   john   dinner   sushi     3    name   larry   dinner   hummus        console log findDinner  sushi   data         gt    name   john   dinner   sushi    x000D   as-console-wrapper  max-height  100   important  top  0  x000D   lt script src  https   bundle run object-scan 13 8 0  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   Disclaimer  I m the author of object-scan

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