jQuery Javascript array 'contains' functionality?

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Published on 2010-04-06T22:00:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 22:03 UTC
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I'm trying to use the jQuery $.inArray function to iterate through an array and if there's an element whose text contains a particular keyword, remove that element. $.inArray is only returning the array index though if the element's text is equal to the keyword.

For example given the following array named 'tokens':

-   tokens  {...}   Object
    [0] "Starbucks^25^http://somelink"  String
    [1] "McDonalds^34^" String
    [2] "BurgerKing^31^https://www.somewhere.com"   String

And a call to removeElement(tokens, 'McDonalds'); would return the following array:

 -  tokens  {...}   Object
    [0] "Starbucks^25^http://somelink"  String
    [1] "BurgerKing^31^https://www.somewhere.com"   String

I'm guessing this may be possible using the jQuery $.grep or $.each function, or maybe regex. However, I'm not familiar enough with jQuery to accomplish this.

Any help would be appreciated!

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