If Else Conditionals within Function in JavaScript
- by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
I'm having issues with conditionals. I want to return the index where pattern starts in string (or -1 if not found). The search is to be case sensitive if the 3rd parameter is true otherwise it is case insensitive.
Examples
index("abAB12","AB",true) returns 2 but index("abAB12","AB",false) returns 0
index("abAB12","BA",true) returns -1 and index("abAB12","BA",false) returns 1
Any idea how I can accomplish this?
This is my code so far
var s = "abAB12"
var p = "AB"
var cs = true
function index(string, pattern, caseSensitive) {
if (pattern) {
var found = false;
if (caseSensitive = false) {
if (string.indexOf(pattern.) >= 0) {
found = true;
}
return (found);
else {
return ("");
}
} else if (caseSensitive = true) {
if (string.toLowerCase().indexOf(pattern.toLowerCase()) >= 0) {
found = true;
}
return (found);
} else {
return ("");
}
}
}
alert(index(s, p, cs));
Fiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/AfDFb/1/
