[Solved] JavaScript object search and get all possible nodes

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You could try and solve this with recursive function calls

function parse(string, key, before) {
    return before+key+":"+string;
}

function findString(string, json, before) {
    var results = [];
    for (var key in json) {
        if (typeof(json[key]) === "string") { // it is a string
            if (json[key].contains(string)) { // it contains what it needs to
              results.push(parse(string, key, before));
          }
        } else { // it is an object
            Array.prototype.push.apply(results, findString(string, json[key], before+key+":"));
        }
    }
    return results;
}

var json = {
   data: {
    countries: "['abc','pqr','xyz']",
    movies: {
      actor: "['abc','pqr','xyz']",
      movie: "['abc','pqr','x toyz']"
    },
    oranges: {
       potatoes: "['abc','pqr','xyz']",
       zebras: {
           lions: "['abc','pqr','xyz']",
           tigers: "oh my!" // does not get added
       }
    }
    }
};

console.log(findString("pqr", json.data, ""));

This outputs an array like:

Array [ "countries:pqr", "movies:actor:pqr", "movies:movie:pqr", "oranges:potatoes:pqr", "oranges:zebras:lions:pqr" ]

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solved JavaScript object search and get all possible nodes