Question

Here is the script i wrote to read each character from a textbox and checking whether that character exists in a array but this isn’t working correctly as i’m getting a -1 for any character i enter into the textbox despite of whether its there or not in the array i’m searching that value. Can anyone please help

$(document).ready(function()
{
    var arr1;
    var arr2= $("#myValue").val().split("");

    $("#TextBox1").keyup(function ()
    { 
        arr1 = $("#TextBox1").val().split("");
    });

    $("#btn").click(function ()
    { 
        jQuery.each(arr1, function(i, val)
        {
            $("#xyz").append(this + "<br/>");
            $("#xyz").append(jQuery.inArray(this, arr2)+"<br/>");
        });
    });
});

Answer 1

the problem is in this line:

$("#xyz").append(jQuery.inArray(this, arr2)+"<br/>");

change it to:

$("#xyz").append(jQuery.inArray(this.toString(), arr2)+"<br/>");

because this is an object