Why is My Solution not Working?

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
I am unable to find the problem with my code

  **Your code so far**


// Setup
const contacts = [
{
  firstName: "Akira",
  lastName: "Laine",
  number: "0543236543",
  likes: ["Pizza", "Coding", "Brownie Points"],
},
{
  firstName: "Harry",
  lastName: "Potter",
  number: "0994372684",
  likes: ["Hogwarts", "Magic", "Hagrid"],
},
{
  firstName: "Sherlock",
  lastName: "Holmes",
  number: "0487345643",
  likes: ["Intriguing Cases", "Violin"],
},
{
  firstName: "Kristian",
  lastName: "Vos",
  number: "unknown",
  likes: ["JavaScript", "Gaming", "Foxes"],
},
];

function lookUpProfile(name, prop) {
// Only change code below this line
for (let i = 0; i < contacts.length; i++){
  if (name === contacts[i].firstName && contacts[i].hasOwnProperty(prop)){
    return contacts[i][prop];
  } else if (name !== contacts[i].firstName){
    return "No such contacts";
  } else {
    return "No such property";
  }
}
// Only change code above this line
}

lookUpProfile("Akira", "likes");

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36 OPR/83.0.4254.70

Challenge: Profile Lookup

Link to the challenge:

2

It helps if you expand your description of what you need help with. Describing problems with code is hard and takes practice to get good at.

A return statement immediately stops a function, even if there are more loop iterations left to do.

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3

wasn’t too sure what to add in the description cause i was not aware of what the actual problem was, but i’ll definitely elaborate next time on the task i’m trying to achieve.

Thanks

4

No worries.

Did my comment about the return value make sense?

5

Definitely, I was not properly thinking about how the return statement worked with respect to the for loop til i saw your comment.

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