Basic JavaScript - Profile Lookup

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

can somebody tell me what is wrong whit my code please?

  **Your code so far**

// Setup
const contacts = [
{
  firstName: "Akira",
  lastName: "Laine",
  number: "0543236543",
  likes: ["Pizza", "Coding", "Brownie Points"],
},
{
  firstName: "Harry",
  lastName: "Potter",
  number: "0994372684",
  likes: ["Hogwarts", "Magic", "Hagrid"],
},
{
  firstName: "Sherlock",
  lastName: "Holmes",
  number: "0487345643",
  likes: ["Intriguing Cases", "Violin"],
},
{
  firstName: "Kristian",
  lastName: "Vos",
  number: "unknown",
  likes: ["JavaScript", "Gaming", "Foxes"],
},
];

function lookUpProfile(name, prop) {
// Only change code below this line
for ( var i = 0; i < contacts.length; i++) {
if(contacts[i].firstName === name) {
  if ( contacts[i].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
    
  }
  return contacts[i][prop] || "No such property";
}
}
// Only change code above this line
}

lookUpProfile("Akira", "likes");

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Profile Lookup

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  function lookUpProfile(name, prop) {
  // Only change code below this line
  for ( var i = 0; i < contacts.length; i++) {
  if (contacts[i].firstName === name) {
    if ( contacts[i].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
      // This is empty
    }
    // This is not guarded by the if statement
    return contacts[i][prop] || "No such property";
    }
  }
  // Only change code above this line
}

I added some comments. What happens if no contact is found?

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i don t know onestly im lost

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Try it. Run lookUpProfile and supply a name that is not in the contacts.

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Bob , potato , Akira

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What happens when you run lookUpProfile('bob', 'potato')?

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