Question

I have this in Javascript:

var inx=[2,3,4,5];
var valarray=[];
for (i=0; i<inx.length; i++) {
    valarray[i]==inx[i];
}
for (i=0; i<inx.length; i++) {
    var posi=inx.indexOf(3);
    var valy=valarray[posi-1]+1;
    valarray[i]=valy;
}
alert(valarray);

valarray keeps returning nan,nan,nan,nan instead of numbers…

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

The line valarray[i]==inx[i]; doesn’t do what you seem to expect it to.

In JS, = is the assignment operator, == the equality operator with type coercion, and === the strict equality operator.

A few examples:

var a;
alert(a = 2);       // 2

alert('2' == '2');  // true
alert(2 == 2);      // true
alert('2' == 2);    // true (because of type coercion, 2 == '2')

alert('2' === '2'); // true
alert(2 === 2.0);   // true
alert('2' === 2);   // false (strict equality: 2 !== '2')