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

I think the following should do what you want:

function nrKeys(a) {
    var i = 0;
    for (key in a) {
        i++;
    }
    return i;
}
function compareAssociativeArrays(a, b) {
   if (a == b) {
       return true;
   }   
   if (nrKeys(a) != nrKeys(b)) {
       return false;
   }
   for (key in a) {     
     if (a[key] != b[key]) {
         return false;
     }
   }
   return true;
}