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I have an array called viewObject.terms. This array can contain up to 3 items, I need to iterate through this array and save the values into a data object.

ie:

data.term_id_1 = viewObject.terms[0].term_id
data.ticker_1  = viewObject.terms[0].its_ticker

This is what I first tried, but I get the error: Cannot set property '0' of undefined

for (var i=0; i<viewObject.terms.length; i++) {
    data.term_id_[i+1] = viewObject.terms[i].term_id;
    data.ticker_[i+1]  = viewObject.terms[i].its_ticker;
}

TypeError


So for the moment, I'm just using a switch case to handle this currently (albeit in a super ugly way):

if (viewObject.terms.length > 0) {
    switch(viewObject.terms.length) {
        case 1:
            data.term_id_1 = viewObject.terms[0].term_id;
            data.ticker_1  = viewObject.terms[0].its_ticker;
            break;
        case 2:
            data.term_id_1 = viewObject.terms[0].term_id;
            data.ticker_1  = viewObject.terms[0].its_ticker;
            data.term_id_2 = viewObject.terms[1].term_id;
            data.ticker_2  = viewObject.terms[1].its_ticker;
            break;
        case 3:
            data.term_id_1 = viewObject.terms[0].term_id;
            data.ticker_1  = viewObject.terms[0].its_ticker;
            data.term_id_2 = viewObject.terms[1].term_id;
            data.ticker_2  = viewObject.terms[1].its_ticker;
            data.term_id_3 = viewObject.terms[2].term_id;
            data.ticker_3  = viewObject.terms[2].its_ticker;
            break;
    }
}
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  • \$\begingroup\$ as phrased, this seems more akin to a stackoverflow type question, because you're receiving an error (exception)... but it's likely answered already, and so it'll just be flagged as a duplicate. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 0:48

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Another solution to the problem could be expressed using Array.prototype.forEach(), as the following:

viewObject.terms.forEach(function(term, index){
    data['term_id_' + (index + 1)] = term.term_id;
    data['ticker_'  + (index + 1)] = term.its_ticker;
});
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Just figured this out! Hope my answer helps someone else:

for (var i=0; i<viewObject.terms.length; i++) {
    data['term_id_'+(i+1)] = viewObject.terms[i].term_id;
    data['ticker_'+(i+1)]  = viewObject.terms[i].its_ticker;
}

This is how you dynamically name and iterate keys inside of an object

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