Hey Thomas, from what you're saying it seems that we're trying to tackle the same issue. Have a look at this it may be helpful: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_thread/thread/83281987eccf68be
What's your solution? On Feb 21, 4:24 pm, Thomas Jaggi <thomas.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great, that's it. Thanks a lot! > > The indexOf is just an example. The options are actually some kind of > filters and I want to check each item against each filter. Depending > on the filter It could be indexOf. > > On 21 Feb., 14:44, Mike <mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What is "key"? That's not in either one of your data structs. > > > Oops, sorry, didn't look closely enough. But you can't use 'key' that > > way. Try this: > > > if (item[key].indexOf(options[key]) != -1) > > > Not sure what you're after with the indexOf though.