jQuery method to find a character in a string?

Question

It's on the top of my tongue, but I can't remember the method I would use to scan a string variable for something like a specific character. So for example, I want to check IF var emailaddress CONTAINS the '@' symbol. Can anyone give me some help?

Scratch that, indexOf is what I was thinking of.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4444477/how-to-tell-if-a-string-contains-a-certain-character-in-javascript — aug, Dec 11 '12 at 03:19

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '12 at 03:19

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Did you mean indexOf.

var email = 'abc@gmail.com';

if(email.indexOf('@')!=-1){
//doLogic
}

answered Dec 11 '12 at 03:19

Akhil Sekharan

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '12 at 03:24

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in jQuery

jQuery(function($){
//if the input type email contains the @
if( $('input[type="email"]:contains("@")') )
{

alert( $(this).val() ); 

}
else ...

});

answered Dec 11 '12 at 03:24

Jean G.T

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jQuery method to find a character in a string?

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