Why does the filter function return an empty array? [closed]

Question

Why my filter function returns empty in javascript

const result = [{"name": "josh", ...},{"name": "mike", ...},{"name": "john", ...},{"name": "simmon", ...}]
const data = 'j'
const title = result.filter(x => x.name=== data )

It should return this

const result = [{"name": "josh", ...},{"name": "john", ...}]

Answer 1

You are checking if name is equal to j and therefore the filter is working as expected.

Try to use startsWith

const result = [{"name": "josh", ...},{"name": "mike", ...},{"name": "john", ...},{"name": "simmon", ...}]
const data = 'j'
const title = result.filter(x => x.name.startsWith(data) )