Profile Lookup challenge, can someone give me a tip? SOLVED

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function lookUpProfile(firstName, prop){
// Only change code below this line
var i = “”;
var k = “”;
var result = “”;

// loop through the array of profiles
for (i = 0; i < contacts.length; i++) {

// if the firstName parameter is equal to the firstName key in the object, carry on to next step, else return no such contact.
if (contacts[i].firstName == firstName) {

// the name matches, now loop through the object keys to find if the prop parameter matches.
for (k = 0; k < contacts[i].length; k++) {

    //if the prop parameter matches a key in the object, result is equal to the key's value
    if (contacts[i].hasOwnProperty(prop) === true) {result = contacts[i][prop];}
      
    //if the prop matches nothing result is equal to no such property.
    else {result = "No such property";}
      
    }
}

else {result = "No such contact";}
  
}

//return the result of our search
return result;
// Only change code above this line
}

// Change these values to test your function
lookUpProfile(“Sherlock”, “lastName”);

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What is the error you get?

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With this code, it will end up returning the “no such contact” string for every entry.

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I got rid of the for loop that looped through the object (since you told me how they arent numbered like an array.) though now im still only getting the “no such contact”

ive tried many slight variations in my syntax and i simply can’t figure it out.

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i solved this by getting rid of my second for loop, then adding individual return statements for the result variable. i added them in the if/else statement nested within the first if statement, putting them as the last statement for both the if and else paths.