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How to Find Indexes of All Occurrences of an Element in a JavaScript Array?

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We can find indexes of all occurrences of an element in a JavaScript array by using the JavaScript array’s reduce method.

For instance, we can write:

const arr = ["Nano", "Volvo", "BMW", "Nano", "VW", "Nano"].reduce((a, e, i) => {
  if (e === 'Nano')
    a.push(i);
  return a;
}, []);
console.log(arr)

to call reduce on the array where we want to get all indexes of the string 'Nano' from.

To do that, we call it with a callback that takes the a array that we’re going to push the indexes into.

e has the entry of the array we’re checking to see if it’s 'Nano' .

And i is the index of the array entry e .

If e is 'Nano' , we call push with i to push i into the a array.

And then we return a .

The 2nd argument is the initial value of a which is set to an empty array.

And so arr is [0, 3, 5] .

By John Au-Yeung

Web developer specializing in React, Vue, and front end development.

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