Question

So I have this array:

var statuses = { New:1, Addressed:2, Rejected:3, Recovered:4, Billed:5, Completed:6 };

And I’d like to basically search the array for the “Rejected” key and have it return the value, so I can then go back/forth in the array as needed.

I’ve tried this, but it always fails with a “-1” saying it can’t find it.

jQuery.inArray("Rejected", statuses)

Answer 1

"Rejected" in statuses;

No need for jQuery.

If you want the value, do:

statuses["Rejected"];

This will return undefined if “Rejected” is not in the object.

As the others have said, literals of the form {blah: value, blah2: value} represent objects, and those like [value1, value2, value2] represent arrays.