Question

I have an array of JSON objects like so:

var myArray = [
  {name:'foo',number:2},
  {name:'bar',number:9},
  {etc.}
]

How do I detect if myArray contains an object with name=”foo”?

Answer 1

Unless I’m missing something, you should use each at the very least for readability instead of map. And for performance, you should break the each once you’ve found what you’re looking for, no reason to keep looping:

var hasFoo = false;
$.each(myArray, function(i,obj) {
  if (obj.name === 'foo') { hasFoo = true; return false;}
});