How can I search a string from a string array in javascript?

Question

I have a string 'a' and want all results which have 'a' string array.

var searchquery = 'a';
var list = [temple,animal,game,match, add];

I want result = [animal,game,match,add]; all elements which have 'a' as a part of their name.how can I achieve that ?

using regex would be an overkill for this simple problem.. — Anirudha
– Anirudha, Commented Apr 21, 2013 at 18:32

Xotic750 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-21 18:25:17Z

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<div id="display"></div>

var searchquery = 'a';
var list = ["temple", "animal", "game", "match", "add"];
var results = list.filter(function(item) {
    return item.indexOf(searchquery) >= 0;
});

document.getElementById("display").textContent = results.toString();

on jsfiddle

answered Apr 21, 2013 at 18:25

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Ted Hopp · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-21 18:43:09Z

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You can filter the list:

var searchquery = 'a';
var list = ['temple', 'animal', 'game', 'match', 'add'];
var results = list.filter(function(item) {
    return item.indexOf(searchquery) >= 0;
});
// results will be ['animal', 'game', 'match', 'add']

(Note that you need to quote the strings in the list array.)

edited Apr 21, 2013 at 18:43

answered Apr 21, 2013 at 18:21

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Xotic750 Over a year ago

Snap! :) Extra time required for fiddling :P

Ted Hopp Over a year ago

@pandit - I don't think a regex would buy you anything in terms of performance or clarity of code. Since searchquery is a variable, quite the opposite, I would think. Also, I added a link to documentation for the filter function.

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