Question

in my javascript, i have an Array of Calendar objects.

Each Calendar objects has an array of CalendarEvent objects

Each CalendarEvent object has a property Date, Name.

i want to check, give a date, it its exists in a specific Calendar.

I wanted to see if i could use jquery.InArray() but it seems like i have to loop through every CalendarEvent object in the Calendar to find it.

is there any faster way to do this search ??

Answer 1

is there any faster way to do this search ??

You can build an index (e.g. a reverse lookup).

For example, your Calendar object could have an object of Date => CalendarEvent mappings. The key (the Date) must be serialized to a string (to be inserted into the object), so you may want to use the UNIX time as the key.