Compare two Arrays Javascript - Associative

Question

I have searched on here for a quality method to compare associative arrays in javascript. The only decent solution I have found is the PHP.JS project which has some comparat

Answer 1

This is an old question, but since it comes up first in a google search for comparing arrays, I thought I would throw in an alternative solution that works even when the array has two different objects with the same values.

function arrays_equal(a, b) {
    return JSON.stringify(a) == JSON.stringify(b);
}

Note: This is order dependent, so if order doesn't matter, you can always do a sort ahead of time.