indexOf doesn't match the exact string?

[gokulraj]

Hi team,

I have a requirement to get the exact string comparison results.

if my condition is like [ if (emailTo.indexOf("networkoperation@test.com") != -1) ]

it will also satisfy the conditions if the email To contains like the following("operation@test.com")  

How to find the exact string matching?

[SaiRaviKiran Ak]

If you are looking for an exact match then you can simply check like :

 if (emailTo=="networkoperation@test.com") 

[Harsh Vardhan]

i have tested and it will work..

it will work for the exact condition

var emails='networkoperation@test.com';
if (emails.startsWith("operation@test.com"))
{

gs.print('hello');
}
else
{
gs.print('not hello');
}

[Jim Coyne]

I'm not 100% sure what it is you are asking, but you could use the native array.indexOf method to easily look for a matching email address in an array:

var emails = 'networkoperation@test.com, operation@test.com';
var emailArray = emails.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '').split(",");  //create an array from the comma-separated string, forced to lowercase first
gs.info(emailArray.indexOf("operation@test.com") > -1);

...should return "true" for you.

If running in an instance before Helsinki (I'm assuming not), you can also use the "contains" method in the ArrayUtil Script Include:

var emails = 'networkoperation@test.com, operation@test.com';
var emailArray = emails.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '').split(",");  //create an array from the comma-separated string, stripping all spaces and forcing to lowercase first
var arrayUtil = new ArrayUtil();
gs.info(arrayUtil.contains(emailArray, "operation@test.com"));

...would return "true" as well.

[gokulraj]

Hey Jim,

Like you said array.indexOf method will give the match,but some cases it fails,

For E.g,

var emails='networkoperation@test.com ';
if (emails.indexOf("operation@test.com")>-1)
{

gs.print('hello');
}

In this case it will match the if condition,

So to avoid this I want to match the exact string..

[Andrew Saxton -]

You may want to try looping through the email array and comparing the emails that way:

var emails = 'networkoperation@test.com, operation@test.com';
var emailArray = emails.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '').split(",");

for(var i = 0; i < emailArray.length; i++){
	if(emailArray[i] == 'networkoperation@test.com'){
	//do something if they match
	}
}