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  2. mikeumus created this gist Sep 17, 2018.
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    function pullKeys(obj, results, path) {
    var breadcrumb = path;
    for (var prop in obj) {
    if (obj.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
    // path = breadcrumb ? breadcrumb ? path : prop : path;
    // console.log('\n\n path: \n', path, '\n\n');
    if (typeof obj[prop] === "object") {
    path = path ? breadcrumb ? breadcrumb += `.${prop}` : path += `.${prop}` : prop;
    pullKeys(obj[prop], results, path);
    } else {
    var innerObj = {};
    innerObj[path] = obj[prop];
    results.push(innerObj);
    }
    path = breadcrumb ? breadcrumb : path;
    console.log('\n\n path: \n', path, '\n\n');
    }
    }
    // console.log('\n\n breadcrumb: \n', breadcrumb, '\n\n');
    path = '';
    }

    function deepFind(results, target) {
    var found = [];
    results.forEach( function(item) {
    if ( Object.values(item)[0] === target ) {
    found.push(item);
    }
    });
    return found;
    }

    function deepSearch(obj, target) {
    var results = [];
    pullKeys(obj, results);
    return deepFind(results, target);
    }

    var testObj1 = {
    notAnObject: 'just a string',
    iamObject: { now: 'what?' }
    }