var someOtherArray = ["name","patrick","d","w"];
_.each([1, 2, 3], function(num) {
// In here, "this" refers to the same Array as "someOtherArray"
alert( this[num] ); // num is the value from the array being iterated
// so this[num] gets the item at the "num" index of
// someOtherArray.
}, someOtherArray);
var person = {};
person.friends = {
name1: true,
name2: false,
name3: true,
name4: true
};
_.each(['name4', 'name2'], function(name){
// this refers to the friends property of the person object
alert(this[name]);
}, person.friends);
// stock footage:
function addTo(x){ "use strict"; return x + this; }
function pluck(x){ "use strict"; return x[this]; }
function lt(x){ "use strict"; return x < this; }
// production:
var r = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
var words = "a man a plan a canal panama".split(" ");
// filtering numbers:
_.filter(r, lt, 5); // elements less than 5
_.filter(r, lt, 3); // elements less than 3
// add 100 to the elements:
_.map(r, addTo, 100);
// encode eggy peggy:
_.map(words, addTo, "egg").join(" ");
// get length of words:
_.map(words, pluck, "length");
// find words starting with "e" or sooner:
_.filter(words, lt, "e");
// find all words with 3 or more chars:
_.filter(words, pluck, 2);
In short, if callback function that you pass to _.each in any way uses this then you need to specify what this should be referring to inside your callback function. It may seem like x is redundant in my example, but x.addItem is just a function and could be totally unrelated to x or basketor any other object, for example:
function basket() {
this.items = [];
this.show = function() {
console.log('items: ', this.items);
}
}
function addItem(item) {
this.items.push(item);
};
var x = new basket();
_.each(['banana', 'apple', 'kiwi'], addItem, x);
x.show();