Basic JavaScript - Using Objects for Lookups

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Your code so far

// Setup
function phoneticLookup(val) {
  let result = "";

  // Only change code below this line
  var lookup = {
    "alpha": "Adams",
    "bravo": "Boston",
    "charlie": "Chicago",
    "delta": "Denver",
    "echo": "Easy",
    "foxtrot": "Frank"
  };
  result = lookup(val);
  // Only change code above this line
  return result;
}

phoneticLookup("charlie");

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Basic JavaScript - Using Objects for Lookups

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TypeError : lookup is not a function

Yes, lookup is not a function. It is an object, so you cannot use () and call it like a function.

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() calls function calls array right

You don’t really “call” an array or an object. You “access” an array or object member.

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