I have an array of ID's and organizations like so:

var ids = ['1','2', '3'];
var orgs =
    [ 
      { name: "Org 1", id: 1 },
      { name: "Org 2", id: 2 },
      { name: "Org 3", id: 2 }
    ]

I want to loop through these to output something like this:

{
    1: [
        {name: "Org 1", id: 1}
    ],
    2: [
        {name: "Org 2", id: 2},
        {name: "Org 3", id: 2}
    ]
}

I tried this without success:

var results = orgs.forEach(function (org) {
    if (results[org.id]) {
        results.push(org)
    } else {
        results[org.id] = [org]
    };
});

I have an array of ID's and organizations like so:

var ids = ['1','2', '3'];
var orgs =
    [ 
      { name: "Org 1", id: 1 },
      { name: "Org 2", id: 2 },
      { name: "Org 3", id: 2 }
    ]

I want to loop through these to output something like this:

{
    1: [
        {name: "Org 1", id: 1}
    ],
    2: [
        {name: "Org 2", id: 2},
        {name: "Org 3", id: 2}
    ]
}

I tried this without success:

var results = orgs.forEach(function (org) {
    if (results[org.id]) {
        results.push(org)
    } else {
        results[org.id] = [org]
    };
});

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• arrays

Share Improve this question Follow edited Dec 3, 2014 at 21:13 Anthony asked Dec 3, 2014 at 20:53 AnthonyAnthony 16k44 gold badges4343 silver badges6969 bronze badges 2

• Your results is an invalid structure. { [ ] } is invalid, you can't have an object without keys. – gen_Eric Commented Dec 3, 2014 at 20:56
• Thanks @RocketHazmat - I think i've updated accordingly. – Anthony Commented Dec 3, 2014 at 21:09

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If you don't want to use a library like Underscore, Ramda, or Lo-Dash, then it's simple enough to write this using reduce:

var results = orgs.reduce(function(results, org) {
    (results[org.id] = results[org.id] || []).push(org);
    return results;
}, {})

you should use underscore and just return your id

http://underscorejs/#groupBy

_.groupBy([1.3, 2.1, 2.4], function(num){ return Math.floor(num); });
// => {1: [1.3], 2: [2.1, 2.4]}

you might also want to take a look at lo-dash