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  1. adrianhorning08 created this gist Sep 11, 2025.
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    // Function to recursively search for the key
    export function findKey(obj, keyToFind) {
    try {
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(keyToFind)) {
    return obj[keyToFind];
    }

    for (let key in obj) {
    if (typeof obj[key] === "object" && obj[key] !== null) {
    let result = findKey(obj[key], keyToFind);
    if (result !== undefined) {
    return result;
    }
    }
    }

    return undefined;
    } catch (error) {
    console.log("error at findKey", error.message);
    console.log("keyToFind", keyToFind);
    throw new Error(error.message);
    }
    }