JQUERY each(), determining the # of matches so you can only act on the last one

When using JQUERY.each(), what is the way to obtain the value of matched items. I'd like to wrap 开发者_开发问答an IF inside the each() to only act on the last match. thx

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That seems wasteful. Instead, just select the last item and act on it. E.g.:

$("td:last").hide();
$("p:last").hide();

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The .each() method tells you which index item you are currently working with.

$.each(myItems, function(index, value) { 
    if(index == myItems.length-1)
        doStuff(value);
});

It might be easier to just index the last item like so:

doStuff(myItems[myItems.length-1]);

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instead of using each you can use :last if you only want to get the last item of your DOM elements for example

 <ul class="myUls">
     <li>one</li>
     <li>two</li>
     <li>three</li>
</ul>

in you script, you can say

var last = $('.myUls li:last');

the DOM of the last would be the <li>three</li>

moreover if you want to select an index of an array of DOM element you can use :eq() say for example above you want to select the DOM <li>two</li> you can do.

var two = $('.myUls li:eq(1)');

that will get you the two as <li>two</li>

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As BrunoLM mentions, you should probably just use the :last selector.

If you do want to know the number of matches for whatever other reason, you can use .size(), or .length

e.g.

$("b").each(function(i) {
  if (i == $("b").size() - 1) {
    // do stuff
  }
});

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The :last selector. In general though, if you want to know the position of the element you're iterating over with .each() it gets passed to the callback.

$('.selector').each(function(index, elem) {
    //index gets the position of the current elem
});