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@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / materials / getMicroResourceBySymbol

Function: getMicroResourceBySymbol()

getMicroResourceBySymbol(symbol, microResources?): MicroResource | null

Defined in: src/materials/micro-resources.ts:124

Look up a micro resource by its Frontier symbol / journal id (case-insensitive).

Here, symbol is Frontier's internal item id for the micro resource.

Parameters

symbol

string

The internal symbol, e.g. "graphene", or the lower-cased form the player journal reports. Leading/trailing whitespace and case are ignored.

microResources?

readonly MicroResource[] = ALL_MICRO_RESOURCES

Optional subset to search instead of all 226 micro resources — COMPONENT_MICRO_RESOURCES, CONSUMABLE_MICRO_RESOURCES, DATA_MICRO_RESOURCES, ITEM_MICRO_RESOURCES, or any array you have filtered yourself. Omit it unless you specifically want to exclude the rest: the indexed O(1) path is taken only when the argument is omitted or is ALL_MICRO_RESOURCES by reference, and every other array — a copy of that same catalogue included — is scanned.

Returns

MicroResource | null

The matching MicroResource, or null if no micro resource has that symbol.

Throws

If symbol is present and not a string. A nullish symbol is a miss, answered the way an unrecognised one is.

Example

import { getMicroResourceBySymbol } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/materials/micro-resources';

getMicroResourceBySymbol('circuitboard')?.name; // -> 'Circuit Board'

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