Question

I have a jquery collection $(“#Users”) which contains a string with names:

'Bob Beffer, Eddie Queen'

I would like to match this to another (gridrow)collection:

string[] rowObject

say rowObject[1] contains names how can I match/find the names in the rowObject array when i loop though the array? I tried:

if ($("#Users").val().find(rowObject[1]) != null) {

..etc

Answer 1

Try the following:

var rowObject = [ "Bob Beffer", "Another name", "And another" ];
var names = $("#Users").val().split(", "); // Bob Beffer, Eddie Queen
var filteredNames = $.grep(names, function (name) {
  return ~rowObject.indexOf(name); 
});

filteredNames will then just contain Bob Beffer since Eddie Queen does not exist in rowObject.