How do I find specific word using $.inarray in jquery ?

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oldFilesSelected[i] ="desc (sa102mla 2016-17.pdf)";
keyList="sa102mla 2016-17.pdf";
var no =$.inArray(oldFilesSelected[0], keyList);

gives me no= -1 .

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oldFilesSelected[i] ="desc (sa102mla 2016-17.pdf)";
keyList="sa102mla 2016-17.pdf";
var no =$.inArray(oldFilesSelected[0], keyList);

gives me no= -1 .

Posted 7-Dec-16 0:43am

Abrar Kazi

Updated 7-Dec-16 19:38pm

Nelek

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Peter Leow 7-Dec-16 23:29pm

What are oldFilesSelected[i] and oldFilesSelected[0]? You are using $.inArray, but where is the array? Are you looking for substring in a string?

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Answer 1 · 2016-12-07T16:26:00

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try this

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var no =$.inArray(  keyList,oldFilesSelected);

refer jQuery.inArray() | jQuery API Documentation[^]

Posted 7-Dec-16 16:26pm

Karthik_Mahalingam

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Abrar Kazi 12-Dec-16 4:42am

This works only when the words are same .

Like keylist has a word : Abc and oldfilesselected has a word : Hi Abc
then it wont work it gives -1 as output

Karthik_Mahalingam 12-Dec-16 5:17am

because it accepts input as array, not a string.