The Student Record Search Challenge (Further Work)

With only a quick look at the code, the "else if"-statement have wrong syntax and ought to be the problem. Try: "else if(YOUR STATEMENT){".

Ok I fixed that syntax error. Two more questions. If you put my new code into the workspaces then hit preview, it displays "Student not found" like 4 times on the page instead of once, and also keeps it displayed if I put another student into the search that is listed. How do I change this to only one text stuff per search (if that makes sense)? My other question is if I had 2 students with the same name, how do I search for those 2 students individually?

Here's my code:

var message = '';
var student;
var search;

function print(message) {
  var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
  outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}

function getStudentReport( student ) {
  var report = '<h2>Student: ' + student.name + '</h2>';
  report += '<p>Track: ' + student.track + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Points: ' + student.points + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Achievements: ' + student.achievements + '</p>';
  return report;
}

while (true) {
  search = prompt('Search student records: type a name [Jody] (or type "quit" to end)');
  if (search === null || search.toLowerCase() === 'quit') {
    break;
  }
  for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i += 1) {
    student = students[i];
    if (student.name === search) {
      message = getStudentReport( student );
      print(message);
    } else if (student.name !== search) {
        document.write('<p>There is no student with that name found.</p>');
    }     
  }
}

If that can you help guys.

To be able to print all the same names from a single search, you need to declare your variable "message" outside of the "for loop", then when a student name match the search you need to add "+=" it in the "message" variable so when the loop restart it will add the second name also and so on.

To be able to print "Student Not found" when the search doesn't match any student, you can add, outside de "for loop" a variable named "found" then set it to false. Then each time search match a student in your array, set the found variable to true. Then after the "for loop" just add a condition to see if the variable "found" is not true, if so print the "student not found" string.

var answer = "";

while (true){

  answer = prompt("Search for a student. Type the name of the student or type [Quit] to exit");

   if ( answer === null || answer.toLowerCase() === "quit"){

      break;

  }

  if (answer != "") {

    var message = "";
    var found = false;

    for (i=0; i < students.length; i++) {

      var student = students[i];

      if (answer.toLowerCase() === students[i].Name.toLowerCase() ) {

       message += getReport( student ); 
       print(message); 
       found = true;

      } 

     if (!found) {
      print("<p>Student named " + answer + " not found</p>");
     }

    }

  }

}

So I have not been back to this thread in awhile because I forgot about it. I need help getting my code when it run to not repeat names and such, and that when new names are found the old ones are deleted off the window. I also need help getting my code to be able to find someone that has the same name as another student.