JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by David Thomas

JavaScript

function returnRandomValue (){
    var values = ["someval1", "someotherval1", "someval2", "someval3", "tomato", "Pumice", "Spaghetti", "USS Enterprise", "Endymion", "Talkin' 'bout my generation", "Lorem ipsum", "running out of ideas, now..."];
    return values[Math.floor(Math.random() * values.length)];
}


var mya = ["someval1", "someotherval1", "someval2", "someval3"],
    returnedFunctionValue = returnRandomValue();

console.log('Searching for: "' + returnedFunctionValue + '."');

if (mya.indexOf(returnedFunctionValue) > -1) {
    // the value held by the returnedFunctionValue variable is contained in the mya array
    console.log('"' + returnedFunctionValue + '" at array-index: ' + mya.indexOf(returnedFunctionValue));
}
else {
    // the value held by the returnedFunctionValue variable is not contained in the mya array
    console.log('"' + returnedFunctionValue + '" not held in the array');
}