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Dot notation and bracket notation are two ways to access properties of objects in JavaScript.
Dot notation is generally preferred over bracket notation because it is more concise and easier
to read. However, there are specific situations where you must use bracket notation.

Dot notation uses a period (.) followed by the property name to access an object's property. For
instance, consider the following object:

JavaScript
const person = {
name: "John Doe",
age: 30
};

To access the "name" property using dot notation, you would write:

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console.log(person.name); // Output: John Doe

Bracket notation uses square brackets [] followed by the property name to access an object's
property. For the same object, accessing the "age" property using bracket notation would look
like this:

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console.log(person["age"]); // Output: 30

While dot notation is preferred for its simplicity, bracket notation becomes necessary when the
property name is stored in a variable or when the property name contains special characters or
spaces.

Consider the following example:

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const person = {
name: "Jane Doe",
age: 25
};

const propertyName = "age";


console.log(person[propertyName]); // Output: 25

In this case, the property name is stored in the propertyName variable, and you can't access the
property using dot notation. Bracket notation is required to access the value associated with the
variable's value.

The provided code snippet demonstrates the use of bracket notation within a function to
dynamically access object properties based on a variable value. The logProperty() function
takes a propertyName variable as input and retrieves the corresponding property value from the
person object using bracket notation.

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const person = {
name: ["Bob", "Smith"],
age: 32
};

function logProperty(propertyName) {
console.log(person[propertyName]);
}

logProperty("name"); // Output: ["Bob", "Smith"]


logProperty("age"); // Output: 32

In this example, the logProperty() function can access both the "name" and "age" properties
using bracket notation since the property names are passed as arguments to the function.

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