Jquery: How to find text in textarea

Question

I have array of keywords. How can I find if any of these keywords present in textarea? Is there any plugin or function to do that?

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '09 at 15:58

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var words = $('#text').val().split(/\b[\s,\.-:;]*/);
var keywords = ['keyword1', 'keyword2'];

var isKeywordPresent = $.grep(keywords, function(keyword, index) {
    return $.inArray(keyword, words) > 0;
}).length > 0;

answered Sep 15 '09 at 15:58

Darin Dimitrov

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This solution should use return $.inArray(keyword, words) > -1; $.inArray will return 0 if the first word in words matches. – Hobhouse Jul 23 '10 at 06:22

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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for some ideas @SO Find text string using JQuery?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Sep 15 '09 at 15:53

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Jquery: How to find text in textarea

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