Possible to do wildcard filtering?

newtodatatables

Hi, I am trying to do wildcard filtering on a datatables. I have looked through the API but cant seem to get it.

For example I have apple, banana, orange, 'banana mango' in a column. When i use *e it should display apple as 'e' is the last letter. Or when I search "b* m*" it should display 'banana mango'. Is there anyway to do this? Thanks.

allan

Yes this is possible, using regular expressions:

http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter
http://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html

So to use regex, you'll need to build up your own regex and then call fnFilter with DataTables' smart filtering turned off (as described in the documentation).

Allan

newtodatatables

Thank you for your help. I am trying my best to understand the api.