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• kthorngren Posts: 21,344Questions: 26Answers: 4,954

  January 2017

  One option is to use regex searching as in this example:
  https://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html

  If you choose regex and type tokyo|london it will show rows with both tokyo and london.

  Kevin
• bricoll Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  January 2017

  Is there a way to use that regex parameter as part of a function like the one below? (The function is invoked onclick of a dropdown menu item.) Reference manual doesn't provide quite enough info on search() for me to see precisely how the parameters work.

  var table = $('#myTable').DataTable();
  
  function myFunction() {
      table
          .columns(2)
          .search()
          .draw();
  
  }
  
• kthorngren Posts: 21,344Questions: 26Answers: 4,954

  January 2017 Answer ✓

  You can enable regex during initialization:
  https://datatables.net/reference/option/search.regex

  Or through the API:
  https://datatables.net/reference/api/search()

  Kevin
• bricoll Posts: 3Questions: 1Answers: 0

  January 2017 edited January 2017

  Thank you so much, Kevin!

  This worked:

  function myFunction() {
      table
          .columns(2)
          .search('knowledge|processes', true, false)
          .draw();
  
  }