Get the first key name of a JavaScript object [duplicate]
Let's assume we have the following JavaScript object:
ahash = {"one": [1,2,3], "two": [4,5,6]}
Is there a function that returns the first key name for the given object?
From the example above I want to get one
as a result of that function.
In Javascript you can do the following:
Object.keys(ahash)[0];
There's no such thing as the "first" key in a hash (Javascript calls them objects). They are fundamentally unordered. Do you mean just choose any single key:
for (var k in ahash) {
break
}
// k is a key in ahash.
You can query the content of an object, per its array position.
For instance:
let obj = {plainKey: 'plain value'};
let firstKey = Object.keys(obj)[0]; // "plainKey"
let firstValue = Object.values(obj)[0]; // "plain value"
/* or */
let [key, value] = Object.entries(obj)[0]; // ["plainKey", "plain value"]
console.log(key); // "plainKey"
console.log(value); // "plain value"