I would like to determine whether a particular string appears in a column in a jQuery DataTable, but I couldn’t find a straightforward way of doing this. Am I missing an easy way to go about this?
The .fnFilter() function is almost what I want, except, it filters the table directly, whereas I want to the filtered row(s) to return as results.
There are a couple of plug-in API functions available: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/api, in particular the
fnFindCellRowIndexes()andfnFindCellRowNodes()