Question

I have a JTable that am Filtering in relation to JTextField input. It is only Filtering Rows based on the first characters. For example if My Column 2 has Values:

VALUES PARAMETER
PARAMETER VALUES
.
.

When I type V into the JTextfield it will show the row with VALUES PARAMETER and leave the row with PARAMETER VALUES I need an advanced Filter such that when I type V it will be able to show me the Two rows or any other rows where there is a Name Starting with the Value typed in the JTextField: Here is My Filter….(Part)

 jtfSearch.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener() {
        public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            newFilter();
        }

        public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            newFilter();
        }

        public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            newFilter();
        }
    });

My Filter Method:

 public void newFilter() {
    RowFilter< MyTableModel, Object> rf = null;
    try {
        rf = RowFilter.regexFilter("^" + jtfSearch.getText(), 1);
    } catch (Exception as) {
        System.err.println(as);
        return;
    }
    sorter.setRowFilter(rf);
}

Is it an Issue of the Regex filter or what Should I do?

Answer 1

I assume that jtfSearch.getText() returns the text from the entire row, is this correct? If so, then presumably the issue is just that you have "^" at the start of your regex, take this out and it should match anywhere in the full row content.