Also, you can pass the function as an argument directly:

return messages.filter(small_message);

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Adrien Risser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Filter is what you're looking for.
>
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/filter
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Roelof Wobben <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I try to learn functional javascript by following the functonial workshop
>> of nodeschool.
>>
>> Now I have to filter out all the messages which lenght are shorter then
>> 50.
>>
>> So I thought this would work :
>>
>> ~~~
>>
>> module.exports = function getShortMessages(messages) {
>>
>>     function small_message(item)
>>
>>     { return item.length < 50 ; }
>>
>>
>>     messages.map(function(message)
>>
>>      { return small_message(message) }) }
>>
>> but when I test it I see a empty array as answer
>>
>> Can someone explain where my thinking took the wrong path ?
>>
>> Roelof
>>
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