Testing Objects For Properties may '21

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
Hehehehe…Oh Please can some wonderful person help and stop me from pulling all my hair out in frustration. I’ve been battling with this exercise for a few hours. All the checks pass except for the last one:
checkObj({pet: "kitten", bed: "sleigh"}, "gift") should return the string Not Found .

Can someone please tell me what am I doing wrong?
Many thanks, Pierson

  **Your code so far**


function checkObj(obj, checkProp) {
// Only change code below this line
var obj = {
gift: "pony",
pet:  "kitten",
bed: "sleigh",
city: "Seattle"
};
if(obj.hasOwnProperty(checkProp)) {
  return obj[checkProp];
} else {
  return "Not Found";
}

// Only change code above this line
}


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Challenge: Testing Objects for Properties

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Why are you overwriting the argument variable obj with your own object? The function should take an object and a property name and use them.

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Hi ArielLeslie, thanks for getting in touch. Please forgive my stupidity. Could you show me an example snippet please so I can visually see what you mean. Thanks

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the function here has obj as function parameter, that means that the function can get a different value for obj each it is called

that value is lost just two lines below because you overwrite it

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ieahleen, thank you. Now I understand what I was doing wrong. I really appreciate both yours and ArielLeslies help . have a great day both.

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