Is there a better way to do this in JavaScript? Array search using while

Question

I'm thinking of ways to improve the following piece of code, mostly by minimizing the lines of code, but also keeping it clear to the reader what the code does. Could I somehow use indexOf() in the example below?

var events = myArray.data.items;

data = null;
found = false;
counter = 0;
if (selectedValue != "") {
    while (!found && counter < events.length) {
        //notice there's an extra layer of objects for each object in the array
        if (events[counter].data.Event_ID == selectedValue) { 
            data = events.items[counter].data;
            //do stuff
            found = true;
            break;
        }
        counter++;
    }
}

Answer 1

You can do a trick using the some() method:

var data = null;
var found = events.some(function (event) {
    return event.data.Event_ID == selectedValue ? ((data = event.data), true) : false;
});