How to search for a string inside an array of strings

Question

After searching for an answer in other posts, I felt I have to ask this. I looked at How do I check if an array includes an object in JavaScript? and Best way to find if an

Answer 1

It's faster to avoid using regular expressions, if you're just trying to find the first substring match within an array of string values. You can add your own array searching function:

Code:

Array.prototype.findFirstSubstring = function(s) {
            for(var i = 0; i < this.length;i++)
            {
                if(this[i].indexOf(s) !== -1)
                    return i;
            }
            return -1;
        };

Usage:

i.findFirstSubstring('height');

Returns:

-1 if not found or the array index of the first substring occurrence if it is found (in your case would be 2)