Question

I want to set values to a range in a jquery dictionary object somthing like this

var temp_dict = {'1-10': 'Woolen', '11-25':'Light Woolen', '26-36':'Light Cotton'}

here the keys 1-10, 11-25, 26-36 is different ranges of temprature. I want to store this in a dictionary and then call them like this :

alert(temp_dict[15]);

so that it checks in the range and returns appropriate result.

is there any way i could achieve this??

Answer 1

function getTemp(t) {
    for (var key in temp_dict) {
        var range = key.split("-");
        if (t >= range[0] && t <= range[1])
            return temp_dict[key];
    }
}

var temp = getTemp(15);

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/WPXdx/