Question

.search JS method seems to want a string literal not a variable…

for (app in Servers)
{
    the_name = Servers [app]["Name"];
    the_app = Servers [app]["App Name"];
    search_str = "/"+Name+"/";
    hit = the_app.search(search_str);
    if (the_name == Name || the_app == "Foo Bar" )
    {
        result.Index = app;  
    }
}

I want to generate a hit for a set of Apps that have a common Word for e.g. Name = “Skittles” will hit on Apps where app_name == “Skittles 1.0”; “Skittles 1.5”; “Skittles 3.2 — The Deluxe Edition 3.2”; etc etc

Name is a user definable variable. Servers is an object made available to me that lists video servers I can stream from running on my machine, each item in Servers will correspond to a server and have a “Name” item and a “App Name” item in it’s object. (It’s Syphon thing this is not an HTML/web context).

Should I look at using a different method to construct the regexp?

Answer 1

Why RegExp? Use indexOf, it’s the counterpart of search but for strings.

Update: Then use new RegExp(Name) to turn the string into a regular expression.

Update: Now that you updated your question, indexOf with “Skittles” will still work with all of your app_names.

for (app in Servers)
{
    the_name = Servers [app]["Name"];
    the_app = Servers [app]["App Name"];

    rx = new RegExp(Name);
    hit = the_app.search(rx);

    if (the_name == Name || the_app == "Foo Bar" )
    {
        result.Index = app;  
    }
}