# Simple Array Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-array-question/175655>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 16, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-array-question/175655 "2006-01-16T20:22:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-array-question/175655/1 "2006-01-16T20:22:28Z")

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Say my array is [“apple”, “orange”, “cherry”].

Is there a way to search “orange” to find out what index# it is in the array?

myArray[find the index# of “orange”] which would result in “1”

(“apple” being “0” and “cherry” being 2.)

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks in advance for any help.