lodash includes - disable strict checking

Question

I have an array like this

let a = ["1","2","3"];
let searchFor = 1;
_includes(a, searchFor); //this returns false

I think this one returns false because the value in array a are strings instead of number.

How can I disregard the data type?

I don't want to convert those strings in the array into numbers because some values in there might be strings really.

Thanks.

@Saddy i cannot control the types in the array and the value of `searchFor`. — PinoyStackOverflower, Feb 09 '21 at 02:08
See if https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25171143/how-do-i-use-the-includes-method-in-lodash-to-check-if-an-object-is-in-the-colle helps — Saddy, Feb 09 '21 at 02:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '21 at 09:25

You can create your own loose includes with Array.some() (or lodash's _.some()), and an abstract equality comparison (==):

const loostIncludes = (arr, value) => arr.some(v => v == value)
  
console.log(loostIncludes(["1","2","3"], 1))
console.log(loostIncludes(["1","2","3"], "1"))
console.log(loostIncludes(["1","2","3"], 4))

lodash includes - disable strict checking

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