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Andrei Fecioru
15,059 Pointsthe for ... in ... construct also works for arrays
You mentioned in the video that the "for... in" construct is available "only" for objects (with an emphasis on "only" which implies that it cannot be applied to arrays).
I tried the following in node REPL:
> l = [1,2,3,4];
[ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
> for (var i in l) {console.log(i);}
0
1
2
3
It obviously works for arrays too.
Also, in one of the lessons about arrays you use the indexOf() method to check the existence of an element inside an array but I got the same results using the in construct:
// check if "bacon" is in shopping list
if ("bacon" in shoppingList) {
// do something with bacon
}
Is there a cross-browser issue or some other corner case where these usage patterns do not apply?
2 Answers
Andrei Fecioru
15,059 PointsI realised what I got wrong.
The for ... in construct (when used against arrays) loops through the indexes of the elements inside the array (which act like the keys inside an object). So one cannot use this construct the way I did in my previous example. The most one can do is something along these lines:
for (var i in someList) {console.log(someList[i]);}
Tiffany White
5,373 PointsYou can use for in for arrays as long as the order of the indexes doesn't matter. Check out MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for...in