Rickgg
/ searchByKey.js
Created
December 6, 2017 19:00
Function to recursively search an object by a key and returning the data found in the key.
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| function iterate (obj, key) { | |
| var result; | |
| for (var property in obj) { | |
| if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) { | |
| // in case it is an object | |
| if (property.match(RegExp(key, 'gi'))) { | |
| return obj[property]; // returns the value | |
| } else if (typeof obj[property] === "object") { | |
| result = iterate(obj[property], key); | |
| if (typeof result !== "undefined") { |