Is there a method to remove an item from a JavaScript array?
Given an array:
var ary = ['three', 'seven', 'eleven'];
I would like to do something like:
removeItem('seven', ary);
I've looked into splice()
but that only removes by the position number, whereas I need something to remove an item by its value.
You can use the indexOf
method like this:
var index = array.indexOf(item);
if (index !== -1) {
array.splice(index, 1);
}
var array = [1,2,3,4]
var item = 3
var index = array.indexOf(item);
array.splice(index, 1);
console.log(array)