Access object child properties using a dot notation string [duplicate]

Answer 1

split and reduce while passing the object as the initalValue

var r = { a:1, b: {b1:11, b2: 99}};
var s = "b.b2";

var value = s.split('.').reduce(function(a, b) {
  return a[b];
}, r);

console.log(value);

Update (thanks to comment posted by TeChn4K)

With ES6 syntax, it is even shorter

var r = { a:1, b: {b1:11, b2: 99}};
var s = "b.b2";

var value = s.split('.').reduce((a, b) => a[b], r);

console.log(value);