Is there an indexOf in javascript to search an array with custom compare function

Question

I need the index of the first value in the array, that matches a custom compare function.

The very nice underscorej has a \"find\" function that returns the

Answer 1

The javascript array method filter returns a subset of the array that return true from the function passed.

var arr= [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
first= arr.filter(function(itm){
    return itm>3;
})[0];
alert(first);

if you must support IE before #9 you can 'shim' Array.prototype.filter-

Array.prototype.filter= Array.prototype.filter || function(fun, scope){
    var T= this, A= [], i= 0, itm, L= T.length;
    if(typeof fun== 'function'){
        while(i