jQuery .search() to any string

Question

I saw this code snippet:

$("ul li").text().search(new RegExp("sometext", "i"));

and wanted to know if this can be extended to any string?

I want to accomplish the following, but it dosen't work:

$("li").attr("title").search(new RegExp("sometext", "i"));

Also, anyone have a link to the jQuery documentation for this function? I fail at googling apparently.

Jacob Relkin · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-28T19:15:59.760

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search() is a String method.

You are executing the attr function on every <li> element. You need to invoke each and use the this reference within.

Example:

$('li').each(function() {
    var isFound = $(this).attr('title').search(/string/i);
    //do something based on isFound...
});

edited Jun 28 '12 at 19:15

answered Dec 06 '09 at 06:12

Jacob Relkin

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I think $(this).attr('title') is already a string. Do we still need to convert it to string again ? – angry kiwi Jun 02 '11 at 09:11

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 28 '12 at 16:43

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if (str.toLowerCase().indexOf("yes") >= 0)

Or,

if (/yes/i.test(str))

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answered Jun 28 '12 at 13:11

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '09 at 06:18

Ah, that would be because RegExp is not jQuery. :)

Try this page. jQuery.attr doesn't return a String so that would certainly cause in this regard. Fortunately I believe you can just use .text() to return the String representation.

Something like:

$("li").val("title").search(/sometext/i));

jQuery .search() to any string

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