Select object name that has a string as key?

Question

x = {
u: {
“age”: 24
}
}

How do you select age?
so that the output is 24

Answer 1

You will always got data from server or API in this format and have to convert it to objects.
This is how you can do it. https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_parse.asp

Answer 2

x['u']['age'] or x.u.age

Answer 3

zexu knub huh, i see.

Can I ask you another question. It’s ok if you dont know.

I found a localStorage data like this:

x is the key.

x:
user: ‘{“loggedIn”: true, “accountType”: standard, “firstName”: “Joe”}’

— note the single quote.

perhaps if i wanted to select “accountType” how would i do that?

Answer 4

zexu knub the difference between the new question i asked is that all the values and keys are stored as a string.

everything inside user is wrapped as a string inside the ‘single’ quote.

I’m wondering if it’s evn possible to get the values inside the single quote, because its being stored as like one string.

user: ‘{“loggedIn”: true, “accountType”: standard, “firstName”: “Joe”}’

Answer 5

Again why don't you use ' sign. This whole syntax is wrong.

Anyway idt you can actually do that cause then it will be a string. It isn't the most efficient solution but you can convert it to an array x.user.split(" ") & then you can access those values with their index.

Answer 6

Calviղ I made it that way on purpose. I found a code online where they had it age like that “age”.

So i was trying ro figure out how you would select age when it’s inside quotes

Answer 7

Ginfio you still can select it using the usual object convention. Eg. x.u.age

If the key string consists of invalid var symbol, for example
var x = {
u: {
"my-age": 14
}
}

You can get my-age value by
x.u["my-age"]
https://code.sololearn.com/cz2lAnp0zGIG/?ref=app

Answer 8

I just pasted your code you haven't used quotes for the age property. Either use ' or don't use anything.

Answer 9

Ginfio your object is not in correct format,
it should be
var x = {
u: {
age: 24
}
}

https://code.sololearn.com/cglgeigepJFN/?ref=app