How to match a substring from a string and equal it in a If Condition in Jquery?

Question

HI all i have some where there is Departments and department has some data like this

          Department
           Casual shoe
           formal shoe
           sports shoe

so i want to write an if condition where i should write an if condition like this

    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $.getJSON("/api/ProductLayout", function (data) {
            $.each(data, function (idx, ele) {
                $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#makeMeScrollable");
                $("#makeMeScrollable").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                if (ele.Department == "Shoes") {
                    alert(2);
                    //$(".img_main").empty();
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#Watches");
                    $("#Watches").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
                else if (ele.Department = "Wallets") {
                    alert(3);
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#BackPacks");
                    $("#BackPacks").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
                else if (ele.Department = "Belts") {
                    alert(4);
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#Belts");
                    $("#Belts").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
             });
        });
    });      

</script>

now i ant to write an if condition for shoe where if (ele.Department == "Shoes") i should get all the data of deaprtments which has "shoe" in it,jow can i write an condition for this

Confused.. is Department a collection? – Lews Therin Sep 25 '12 at 08:00 — Lews Therin, Sep 25 '12 at 08:00
In your condition use "==" not "=" – Lews Therin Sep 25 '12 at 08:02 — Lews Therin, Sep 25 '12 at 08:02
@LewsTherin yes department is a collection – SoftwareNerd Sep 25 '12 at 08:12 — SoftwareNerd, Sep 25 '12 at 08:12
yes i fixed the condition use "==" not "=" – SoftwareNerd Sep 25 '12 at 08:13 — SoftwareNerd, Sep 25 '12 at 08:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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To answer you question about finding a substring..

I will try:

if(variableInQuestion.indexOf("shoes")!=-1)
{

}

And two of your if conditions use = not == you probably want to fix that.

UPDATE:

Looking at your question again..

"Formal shoes"
"Casual shoes"

Is it possible that you want an endsWith("shoes") method? If so: endsWith in JavaScript

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Sep 25 '12 at 08:05

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-26T14:04:47.963

I think you could use regular expressions:

this tests for shoes case insensitive. (match also "shoesprostore")

if (/shoes/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

this tests for the word shoes case insensitive. (match "Big Shoes" and "Small Shoes") (edit 4)

if (/\bshoes\b/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

edit:

this tests for the words shoe and shoes case insensitive.

if (/\bshoes?\b/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

\b : start and finish of a word

? : the previous character may or may not be present

i (after the sencond /) : case insensitive

look here for more http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

:)

edit 2:

corrected grammar inconsistencies thanks to my friend SandMan

edit 3:

maybe you could save the regex in global scope (before the $(document).ready(...) statement) using

var shoeTest = /shoes/i; then

if (shoeTest.test(...))

is ##if (/shoes/i.test(ele.Department))## working with firefox 3.6 too? — Krishna Kumar, Sep 25 '12 at 09:03

How to match a substring from a string and equal it in a If Condition in Jquery?

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