Javascript check if any of the words in string starts with

Asked Aug 08 '17 at 06:39

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I am creating javascript function to filter ul list li based on input

textli.match("^he")

Above code matches all the words starting with ab.But I also want to check other words seperated by space.

hello world

so to match above string textli.match("^he") will do the job , but what if I also want to filter world with textli.match("^wo")

edited Aug 08 '17 at 06:41

asked Aug 08 '17 at 06:39

Vishnu

how _ab_ matches _he_ ? – Sagar V Aug 08 '17 at 06:41
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Replace `^` with `\b`. `/\bwo/` to find the word starting with `wo`. – Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 08 '17 at 06:41
`ab[^ \n]*` would do the job + global flag – online Thomas Aug 08 '17 at 06:42
do you want to get the first 2 characters of all words? or only he and wo ? – Sagar V Aug 08 '17 at 06:46
its inputbox to filter list , so it must work for any number of characters – Vishnu Aug 08 '17 at 06:46

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