Javascript: take every nth Element of Array
Filter itself returns an array. If I'm understanding you correctly, you don't need that surrounding loop. So:
newArr = oldArr.filter(function(value, index, Arr) {
return index % 3 == 0;
});
will set newArr to every third value in oldArr.
Maybe one solution :
avoid filter because you don't want to loop over 10 000 elements ! just access them directly with a for loop !
var log = function(val){document.body.innerHTML+='<div></pre>'+val+'</pre></div>'}
var oldArr = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
var arr = [];
var maxVal = 5;
var delta = Math.floor( oldArr.length / maxVal );
// avoid filter because you don't want
// to loop over 10000 elements !
// just access them directly with a for loop !
// |
// V
for (i = 0; i < oldArr.length; i=i+delta) {
arr.push(oldArr[i]);
}
log('delta : ' + delta + ' length = ' + oldArr.length) ;
log(arr);