[removed] using typeof to check if string

Question

I\'m working on a codecademy.com exercise where we use for-in statements to loop through an object and print hello in different languages by checking to see if the values of the

Answer 1

You are checking keys of the object, not the value. It's usually a good practice to check against the constructor of an object to determine its type.

Something like this:

var languages = {
    english: "Hello!",
    french: "Bonjour!",
    notALanguage: 4,
    spanish: "Hola!"
};

for(i in languages) {

  if(languages[i].constructor === String) {
    console.log(languages[i])   
  };

};