Why Array.indexOf doesn’t find identical looking objects

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indexOf compares searchElement to elements of the Array using strict equality (the same method used by the ===, or triple-equals, operator).

You cannot use === to check the equability of an object.

As @RobG pointed out

Note that by definition, two objects are never equal, even if they have exactly the same property names and values. objectA === objectB if and only if objectA and objectB reference the same object.

You can simply write a custom indexOf function to check the object.

function myIndexOf(o) {    
    for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
        if (arr[i].x == o.x && arr[i].y == o.y) {
            return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/zQtML/

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