how to use like search

Question

User-1634604574 posted

i have this code to search through this string but i don't have result

        let a ="kool" 
var term = 'oo'; 
var search = new RegExp(term , 'i'); 
let b = a.filter(item => search.test(item));
alert(b); 

Answer 1

User-719153870 posted

Hi zhyanadil,

The filter method in JS is used to process arrays, and cannot operate on strings.

Press F12 to open the console and you will see the problem.

If you want to match the string, you can do like this:

let a = "kool"
var term = 'oo';
var search = new RegExp(term, 'i');
let b = search.test(a);
alert(b);

Hope this can help you.

Best Regard,

Yang Shen

Answer 2

User-474980206 posted

its not clear what you expect "b" to be

   /oo/i.test("kool"); // true

  "kool".indexOf("oo"); // 1

  "kool".match(/oo/i)  // ["oo"]

  "kool".search(/oo/i); // 1