Column visibility with regular expression

Pierce Krouse

I have seen the default column visibility with the standard api at
https://datatables.net/examples/api/show_hide.html
and I have seen the extended version using the buttons extension linked on the same page.

My use case is a little different in that I need to take a regular expression from a single input, similar to row filtering, and turn on and off columns whose names match the filter.

Has anyone done this, and if not, is this possible with the current api?

ThomD

I think you will need to loop over every column and check for a match manually.

https://datatables.net/reference/api/columns().every()

allan

This is correct. The other option would be use to column-selector as a function (when you use columns()) which would let you execute your regex as part of the selector.

Allan