Question

I have an object

var object= {}

I put some data in the object and then I want to print it like this

document.write(object.term);

the term is a variable that changes depending on different situations. When I try printing this it comes up with undefined.

How would it be done?

Update:

this is the code I am dealing with. I guess it probably isn’t the same as what I said above because I am doing it in selenium with browsermob, I just thought it would be similar to document.write(). Here is the code

var numCardsStr = selenium.getText("//div[@id='set-middle']/div[2]/h2");

var numCards = numCardsStr.substr(4,2); 

browserMob.log(numCards);

var flash = {}

for(i=0; i<(numCards); i++){

var terms = selenium.getText("//div[@id='words-normal']/table/tbody/tr[" + (i + 2) + "]/td[1]");
var defs = selenium.getText("//div[@id='words-normal']/table/tbody/tr[" + (i + 2) + "]/td[2]");

flash[terms] = defs;

browserMob.log(flash.terms);

}

Answer 1

EDIT: You’re using two different variable names, flash and flashcards. I don’t know if they are meant to be the same thing, but you are setting the value using the [] notation, then getting it using . notation.

Try:

var flash = {};

...

flash[terms] = defs;

browserMob.log(flash[terms]);

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If term is a variable to represent the property you are retrieving, then you should use the square bracket notation for getting the property from the object.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/xbMjc/ (uses alerts instead of document.write)

var object= {};

object.someProperty = 'some value';

var term = "someProperty";

document.write( object[term] );  // will output 'some value'