Question: I need the *index* of the first value in the array, that matches a custom compare function.

The very nice [underscorej](http://underscorejs.org/#find) has a "find" function that returns the first value where a function returns true, but I would need this that returns the index instead. Is there a version of indexOf available somewhere, where I can pass a function used to comparing?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Answer: 
The javascript array method **filter** returns a subset of the array that return true from the function passed. 

```
var arr= [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
first= arr.filter(function(itm){
    return itm>3;
})[0];
alert(first);

if you must support IE before #9 you can 'shim' Array.prototype.filter-

Array.prototype.filter= Array.prototype.filter || function(fun, scope){
    var T= this, A= [], i= 0, itm, L= T.length;
    if(typeof fun== 'function'){
        while(i<L){
            if(i in T){
                itm= T[i];
                if(fun.call(scope, itm, i, T)) A[A.length]= itm;
            }
            ++i;
        }
    }
    return A;
}

```
using underscore I came up with something copied from their find implementation using \_.any:

```
findIndex = function (obj, iterator, context) {
    var idx;
    _.any(obj, function (value, index, list) {
        if (iterator.call(context, value, index, list)) {
            idx = index;
            return true;
        }
    });
    return idx;
};

```

What do you think - do you have any better solutions?