How do I modify Input search with regular expression to filter on first word of a column only?

BPAT

I have this in my code and it doesn't seem to work.
$('input[type = search]').on( 'keyup', function () {
dataTableExample.column(0).search("\ba"+ this.value, true, false, true).draw();
alert('hello');
});

So if I enter ma in the input field, it filters to AMA, management, magma, etc. What I would really want is it to filter to management and column values that start with MA and not contain MA.

I am sure I'm doing something stupid, so feel free to point it out to me.

colin

Hi @BPAT ,

If you use regular expressions (there'll be loads of links on Google), it'll be easy - something like "^MA",

Cheers,

Colin

kthorngren

You need to escape the backslash like this: `"\b". For example:
http://live.datatables.net/sinaxapa/1/edit

Took me a minute to realize that problem

Kevin