Confused about Iterate Through the Keys of an Object with a for...in Statement challenge

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Tell us what’s happening:
This just doesn’t make sense. usersObj.user.online == true only works if I use bracket notation for user, and I don’t understand why. It just saysTypeError: Cannot read property ‘online’ of undefined if I don’t.

Your code so far


function countOnline(usersObj) {
 // Only change code below this line
var i = 0;
for (let user in usersObj){
 if (usersObj.user.online == true) {
   i = i + 1;
   console.log(i);
 }
}
return i;
 // Only change code above this line
}
countOnline({ Alan: { online: false }, Jeff: { online: true }, Sarah: { online: false } })

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Challenge: Iterate Through the Keys of an Object with a for…in Statement

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user is a variable. You can’t use dot notation with a variable. You need to use bracket notation.

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