Would it be possible to select using a regular expression in jQuery? Something like
$('input[name=^[a-z]+_[1-9].*]')
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A:
You can find a regex selector here (by James Padolsey), called like this in your case:
$('input:regex(name,^[a-z]+_[1-9].*)');
Nick Craver
2010-08-25 16:36:42
I love the convenience of custom selectors, but often worry about the performance of them. I haven't checked the code, but I keep meaning to, just to put my mind at ease that they don't put too much extra strain on parsing the whole selector.
Andy E
2010-08-25 16:51:26
@Andy - It's definitely a valid concern, just depends how much you're using them and how each browser in-lines the calls, the ideal solution without that info would be declaring the regex before just once.
Nick Craver
2010-08-25 17:08:43
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A:
There's nothing built in, but you could use the filter() method to achieve the same goal:
$('input').filter(function () { return /^[a-z]+_[1-9].*/.test(this.name); })
Andy E
2010-08-25 16:37:54
+1 - This is cleaner, hope you don't mind - took an extra brace from the question off there
Nick Craver
2010-08-25 16:46:02
@Nick: don't mind at all, ta very much :) Teaches me not to just copy and paste blindly lol.
Andy E
2010-08-25 16:49:55