Grep and regular expression in jQuery
Description
The following code shows how to grep and regular expression.
Example
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){<!-- w w w .j a v a 2 s .com-->
var testData = [];
var pattern = /^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$/;
var originalArray = ['11111','abcde','1asdfasdf','asdfasdf-0339'];
var badZips = $.grep(
originalArray,
function(value) {
return value.match(/^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$/) != null;
},
true);
alert(badZips);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<body>
<p id="followMe">Follow me!</p>
</body>
</html>
The code above generates the following result.
