If you want to keep them in the same array do something like this:
PHP Code:
temp.events = {
"event", {30, 30, "otherdata"},
"event2", {20, 20, "loldata"}
};
temp.event_name = "event";
temp.event_index = temp.events.index(temp.event_name);
if (temp.event_index >= 0) {
temp.event_data = temp.events[temp.event_index+1];
// do stuff
}
The in operator will also work as well in this case.