trying to search an array for string using indexOf() but only return exact matches

[ospfeigrp]

Do we have another way to just search for string in an array like the .find function.
I was trying to filter certain samplemaps and populate in a combo dropdown if any element in the array started with "snare" for example.

const var samplemaps = Sampler.getSampleMapList();

the above returns all samplemaps in the samplemaps folder what i am asking is do we have a way of filtering so only all sample maps beginning with the string "snare" populate the combobox?

[d.healey]

You can use both .contains() and .indexOf() to find values in arrays.

[ospfeigrp]

@d-healey thanks

const var samplemaps = Sampler.getSampleMapList();

var test = samplemaps;
if(test.indexOf('bas')>= 0){
  basscombo.set("items", test[test.indexOf("bas")]);
}

this will return the samplemap bass.xml on it's own. i guess i need to wrap this in a for loop. Thanks anyway i think i understand it now

[d.healey]

You could join the array into a single string and use Engine.getRegexMatches to get all matches as an array.