6. Stuck trying to add to array the new contact

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This is the code, please help:

`var bob = {
firstName: “Bob”,
lastName: “Jones”,
phoneNumber: “(650) 777-7777”,
email: "[email protected]"
};

var mary = {
firstName: “Mary”,
lastName: “Johnson”,
phoneNumber: “(650) 888-8888”,
email: "[email protected]"
};

var contacts = [bob, mary];

function printPerson(person) {
console.log(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName);
}

function list() {
var contactsLength = contacts.length;
for (var i = 0; i < contactsLength; i++) {
printPerson(contacts[i]);
}
}

/Create a search function
then call it passing “Jones”/
var search = function(lastName) {
var contactsLength = contacts.length;
for (i = 0 ; i < contactsLength ; i++) {
if ( lastName === contacts[i].lastName) {
printPerson(contacts[i]);
}
}
};

var add = function(firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber) {
var alex = new Object();
alex.firstName = firstName;
alex.lastName = lastName;
alex.email = email;
alex.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
};

contacts[contacts.length] = add(“Alex”, “Test”, "[email protected]", “07451234567”);

list();
`

What am I doing wrong?

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var add = function(firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber) {
            contacts[contacts.length] = {
                firstName : firstName,
                lastName : lastName,
                email : email,
                phoneNumber : phoneNumber
            };
        };
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i give up, the error message keeps saying “syntax error:unexpected token”.

var add = function ( firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber); contacts =[contact.length] = {
firstName: dave,
lastName : crosby,
email : [email protected],
phoneNumber : 07815678876;
};

};

var contacts[contacts.length]=add (“dave”, “crosby”,"[email protected]",“07815678876”);

i think i may have the contact function at the bottom incoorect, can someone verify this for me ?

thanks.

4

Here’s my code which worked:

var bob = {
firstName: “Bob”,
lastName: “Jones”,
phoneNumber: “(650) 777-7777”,
email: "[email protected]"
};

var mary = {
firstName: “Mary”,
lastName: “Johnson”,
phoneNumber: “(650) 888-8888”,
email: "[email protected]"
};

var contacts = [bob, mary];

function printPerson(person) {
console.log(person.firstName + " " + person.lastName);
}

function list() {
var contactsLength = contacts.length;
for (var i = 0; i < contactsLength; i++) {
printPerson(contacts[i]);
}
}

function add(firstName, lastName, email, phoneNumber){ contacts[contacts.length] = {
firstName: firstName,
lastName: lastName,
phoneNumber: phoneNumber,
email: email
}
}

add(“Charlie”, “Vaitkevicius”, "[email protected]", “248-666-3857”);

list(“Charlie”);

What confuses me is that one of the directions said to “Add this new contact object to the contacts array,” and I wasn’t sure what that meant. I ignored that though.

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Take a good look at this line of your code compare it to what i provided earlier and you will see the error