Well.. you have jQuery.inArray, that will do part of the job. It gives you the index of the given value in one array or -1. jQuery.inArray( 1, [8,3,2,1,2] ) == 3. You must iterate and ask each time whether the function returns -1.
No existing function that I know about. On 1 nov, 18:26, rgrwkmn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a function that exists for the purpose of comparing two > arrays and returning the values that are different? The arrays I'm > comparing are likely to contain all the same values but in a different > order. From what I read in the jQuery docs there is no function to > compare array orders. > > I can think of a solution where I make a function to loop through both > arrays sequentially and simultaneously, comparing each value pair and > spitting out the ones that are different. Does anyone know of a > function that already does this? If not, would it make a helpful > plugin for jQuery?
