How to find index of an object by key and value in an javascript array

Question

Given:

var peoples = [
  { \"attr1\": \"bob\", \"attr2\": \"pizza\" },
  { \"attr1\": \"john\", \"attr2\": \"sushi\" },
  { \"attr1\": \"lar         


        

Answer 1

Not a direct answer to your question, though I thing it's worth mentioning it, because your question seems like fitting in the general case of "getting things by name in a key-value storage".

If you are not tight to the way "peoples" is implemented, a more JavaScript-ish way of getting the right guy might be :

var peoples = {
  "bob":  { "dinner": "pizza" },
  "john": { "dinner": "sushi" },
  "larry" { "dinner": "hummus" }
};

// If people is implemented this way, then
// you can get values from their name, like :
var theGuy = peoples["john"];

// You can event get directly to the values
var thatGuysPrefferedDinner = peoples["john"].dinner;

Hope if this is not the answer you wanted, it might help people interested in that "key/value" question.