var inventors = [ { first: 'Albert', last: 'Einstein', year: 1879, passed: 1955 }, { first: 'Isaac', last: 'Newton', year: 1643, passed: 1727 }, { first: 'Galileo', last: 'Galilei', year: 1564, passed: 1642 }, { first: 'Marie', last: 'Curie', year: 1867, passed: 1934 }, { first: 'Johannes', last: 'Kepler', year: 1571, passed: 1630 }, { first: 'Nicolaus', last: 'Copernicus', year: 1473, passed: 1543 }, { first: 'Max', last: 'Planck', year: 1858, passed: 1947 }, { first: 'Katherine', last: 'Blodgett', year: 1898, passed: 1979 }, { first: 'Ada', last: 'Lovelace', year: 1815, passed: 1852 }, { first: 'Sarah E.', last: 'Goode', year: 1855, passed: 1905 }, { first: 'Lise', last: 'Meitner', year: 1878, passed: 1968 }, { first: 'Hanna', last: 'Hammarström', year: 1829, passed: 1909 } ]; // Array.prototype.filter() // 1. Filter the list of inventors for those who were born in the 1500's // if it returns true you keep it otherwise it will drop it var fifteen = inventors.filter(function(inventor){ if(inventor.year >= 1500 && inventor.year < 1600){ return true;//keep it } }); //refactored es6 style: //take the inventors the arrow function returns true on just like above const fifteen = inventors.filter(inventor => inventor.year >= 1500 && inventor.year < 1600);
Filter out an array based on object properties
February 16, 2017
JavaScript