Profile Lookup Challenge - help!

JavaScript
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Hello campers,

I’ve been struggling with this challenge for quite a while, and now that it seems that my basic knowledge is allowing me to grasp the main idea behind it, my code doesn’t work. I don’t really understand why. Here’s the function the way I wrote it (I have already looked at the solutions, I was just wondering if there’s any way to fix my code).

Thank you stranger/s for reading this!

function lookUpProfile(name, prop) {

  for (let i = 0; i < contacts.length; i++) {

    const contactItem = contacts[i];

    if (name === contactItem.firstName && contactItem.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {

      return contactItem[prop];

    } else if (name !== contactItem.firstName) {

      return 'No such contact';

    } else if (!contactItem.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {

      return 'No such property';

    }

  }

}
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Remember, when you use a return statement the function exits immediately. All three conditions in your function have a return statement, so you never make it past the first loop. One of those return statements you want to save until after you have exhausted the for loop.

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