http://zulfadli.net Life, Technology and Personal Finance Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://zulfadli.net/2012/02/wrap-implode-array-elements-in-quotes/#comment-180 Jaylon Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:35:02 +0000 http://zulfadli.net/?p=64#comment-180 Ali,I'm sure you are aware by now of the indexOf() method for Arrays, but just in case you or ayonne else who stumbles on this post like I did doesn't know about it, the native indexOf() method will do the exact same thing your getArrayIndex() function does, except that it returns -1 if the item is not found, which is better because you don't want to use 0 unless the first index is indeed the matching item.Here is your example condensed into 4 lines (though it could easily be just 2 lines) using indexOf() instead:var menus:Array = new Array( Front , Right , Back , Left , Top );var selected:String = Left ;var indexOf:int = menus.indexOf(selected);trace( Found selected item +selected+ at array index: +indexOf); Ali,I’m sure you are aware by now of the indexOf() method for Arrays, but just in case you or ayonne else who stumbles on this post like I did doesn’t know about it, the native indexOf() method will do the exact same thing your getArrayIndex() function does, except that it returns -1 if the item is not found, which is better because you don’t want to use 0 unless the first index is indeed the matching item.Here is your example condensed into 4 lines (though it could easily be just 2 lines) using indexOf() instead:var menus:Array = new Array( Front , Right , Back , Left , Top );var selected:String = Left ;var indexOf:int = menus.indexOf(selected);trace( Found selected item +selected+ at array index: +indexOf);

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