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    <p>The following confuses me greatly. As noted in the comments, the compares seem to work by themselves, but when put together they don't</p> <p>The while should run for all days in the same month, then increment i by one, then start over again. </p> <p>I have laced the whole sequence up with console.log to try to figure it out, but it doesn't make any sense. Everything seems to equal one another, but still fails the "==" test in the while statement. </p> <pre><code> var i=0; var currentdate = 0; var currentmonth = 0; var opensmonth = 0; var opens = [ { "date":"3/30/2006","zip":"30038","latitude":"33.676358","longitude":"-84.15381"}, { "date":"4/31/2006","zip":"30519","latitude":"34.089419","longitude":"-83.94701"} ]; intid = setInterval("stepthrough()", 250); function stepthrough() { //figure out first date. if (currentdate == 0) { // we've not been run before currentdate = opens[0]["date"]; currentmonth = currentdate.split("/", 1); console.log("Current Month: &gt;" + currentmonth +"&lt;"); } console.log("Current month: " + currentmonth + " And opensdate: " + opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1)); // // TWILIGHT ZONE ENTERED. // if (currentmonth == 3 ) { console.log("Current month equals 3."); // PASSES } if (opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1) == 3) { console.log("Opens date equals 3."); // PASSES } // BOTH THE ABOVE TESTS PASS IN CHROME AND SAFARI WHAT THE F*$K JAVASCRIPT while(opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1) == currentmonth) { // WHY DOESNT THIS WORK I HATE COMPUTERS console.log("Trying to add a point one."); addpoint(i); i++; console.log("Trying to add a point."); } //set the date for next iteration currentdate = opens[i]["date"]; currentmonth = currentdate.split("/", 1); console.log ("Current date is now: " + currentdate + " and current month is now: " + currentmonth); jQuery('div#date').text(currentdate); //if (i&gt;=5000) { if (!opens[i]["date"]) { console.log("Clearing interval"); clearInterval(intid); //jQuery('div#date').text("Limited at 5000 records") } } </code></pre>
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