Trying to find an Object key with a for...in loop!

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

I can’t quite understand why this code does not work?

  **Your code so far**


function orbitalPeriod(obj) {
  for(const key in obj) {
    if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key) === "name") {
      console.log("found!")
    }
  }
}

orbitalPeriod({name: "iss", avgAlt: 413.6});


  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Map the Debris

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what is the output of this?

3

Should be…

if(key === “name”) {…}

right?

4

Follow up question…

Is there a way to do anything to that ‘key’ now that I have matched it.
For example… when I try to delete the key that matched the name prop, it doesn’t work…

if(key === “name”) {
delete key;
}

5

key is a string, do you want to delete a property from the object? then you need to use the right notation to identify that property

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