[removed].indexOf not working in Javascript

Question

Below is what I have.

var myString = \"http://localhost:8888/www.smart-kw.com/\";
alert(myString.indexOf(\"localhost\"));

This give me aler

Answer 1

I found a way to make this work:

(window.location.href).indexOf("localhost") > -1)

I actually use this for my projects as conditionals and it works just fine.