Javascript "==" operator lies
<p>The following confuses me greatly. As noted in the comments, the compares seem to work by themselves, but when put together they don't</p>

<p>The while should run for all days in the same month, then increment i by one, then start over again. </p>

<p>I have laced the whole sequence up with console.log to try to figure it out, but it doesn't make any sense. Everything seems to equal one another, but still fails the "==" test in the while statement. </p>

<pre><code>  var i=0;
  var currentdate = 0;
  var currentmonth = 0;
  var opensmonth = 0;
  var opens = [
  { "date":"3/30/2006","zip":"30038","latitude":"33.676358","longitude":"-84.15381"},
  { "date":"4/31/2006","zip":"30519","latitude":"34.089419","longitude":"-83.94701"}
  ];
  intid = setInterval("stepthrough()", 250);
  function stepthrough() {
    //figure out first date.
    if (currentdate == 0) { // we've not been run before
      currentdate = opens[0]["date"];
      currentmonth = currentdate.split("/", 1);
      console.log("Current Month: &gt;" + currentmonth +"&lt;");
    }
    console.log("Current month: " + currentmonth + " And opensdate: " + opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1));

    // 
    // TWILIGHT ZONE ENTERED.
    // 
    if (currentmonth == 3 ) { 
      console.log("Current month equals 3."); // PASSES
    }
    if (opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1) == 3) {
      console.log("Opens date equals 3."); // PASSES
    }
    // BOTH THE ABOVE TESTS PASS IN CHROME AND SAFARI WHAT THE F*$K JAVASCRIPT

    while(opens[i]["date"].split("/", 1) == currentmonth) { // WHY DOESNT THIS WORK I HATE COMPUTERS
      console.log("Trying to add a point one."); 
      addpoint(i);
      i++; 
      console.log("Trying to add a point."); 
    }

    //set the date for next iteration
    currentdate = opens[i]["date"];
    currentmonth = currentdate.split("/", 1);
    console.log ("Current date is now: " + currentdate + " and current month is now: " + currentmonth);
    jQuery('div#date').text(currentdate);

    //if (i&gt;=5000) {
    if (!opens[i]["date"]) {
      console.log("Clearing interval");
      clearInterval(intid);
      //jQuery('div#date').text("Limited at 5000 records")
    }
  }
</code></pre>
