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[SOLVED] Search mechanism to include words as a whole

By JDT

2018-09-14 15:52:54 8 Comments

I have created a search mechanism that searches through an array of strings for an exact string match, however I want it to be a bit more intuitive.

I can also get it to search for a string within the string (for example chicken in grilled chicken - however the issue is this allows users to type ken or ill and it returns grilled chicken.

I would like it to return if I typed in chicken or grilled.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to have a more intuitive search mechanism?

3 comments

@Matee Gojra 2018-09-14 16:08:34

Try This Simplest Code without Regex

var data = ["first string1", "second string2", "third string3"];
    var wordToSearch = "second";
    var res = null;
    data.forEach(function(strings){
    splittedString = strings.split(' ');
    if(splttedString.includes(wordToSearch))
     alert(res);
    });

@Damian Czapiewski 2018-09-14 16:01:29

I'd use RegExp with word boundary anchor - \b.

function search(query, arr) {
    var res  = [];
    var re = new RegExp('\\b' + query + '\\b');
    arr.forEach(function (item) {
        if (re.test(item)) res.push(item);
    });
    return res;
}

@Tom 2018-09-14 15:57:19

It sounds like you only want to search by whole words, if that's the case, you could split the string by the space character and then search through the resultant array for matches.

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