Search

You would use this: "searchCols": [ null, null, { "search": '2' }, null, null, null, null, ] Here is an example with your code and data: http://live.datatables.net/husetogi/1/edit Kevin

api .cells( null, indexval, { search: 'applied' } ) .render('display') .reduce( function

pushing and popping the search API I would just

the rows in the search result you would use

as having an empty search so all the data

Hi @welfordian , It's the because the street name turns the column into a string, so it's doing string search and not numeric. If you use the Natural ordering plugin, see here, everything works as expected. Cheers, Colin

You would enable regex search and disable smart search of column().search() to ignore the firstname portion of the column. This example may help you get started: https://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html Kevin

will need a regex search. This regex seems to

not" with the column search to get empties/blanks. I

The you need to do a search() instead. It's probably worthwhile stepping back and say what you're trying to achieve - that might help find the best solution.