Splicing a Javascript array from within the callback passed to forEach

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Lets see why JavaScript behaves like this. According to the ECMAScript standard specification for Array.prototype.forEach,

when you delete an element at index 1, the element at index 2 becomes the element at index 1 and index 2 doesn’t exist for that object.

Now, JavaScript looks for element 2 in the object, which is not found, so it skips the function call.

That is why you see only a and b.

The actual way to do this, is to use Array.prototype.filter

var array = ["a", "b", "c"];

array = array.filter(function(currentChar) {
    console.log(currentChar);   // a, b, c on separate lines
    return currentChar !== "b";
});
console.log(array);             // [ 'a', 'c' ]

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