jQuery inArray is always returning -1

Question

I cannot figure out why I keep getting -1 for lastProductIndex when clearly the lastProductID is in the array!

var lastProductID = 6758;
var allProductIDs =          


        

Answer 1

This confused me too at first, I had an identical problem. It seems jQuery.inArray() requires a string. So you could just do:

var lastProductID = "6758";

In my case I was trying to do:

var foo = date.getTime()/1000;

Which always resulted in -1 being returned from $.inArray()

But you can just cast it to a string:

var foo = String(date.getTime()/1000);

Hope that helps somebody :)