String Validation (starts with)

Derek10 · ‎12-20-2016

Greetings all,

I'm looking for some assistance on syntax for a series of start withs

IE if it startswith ABC, or XYZ or CAT.

I know it's a on change script for the variable, just not sure on how to match characters. (case insensitive)

Any thoughts?

drjohnchun · ‎12-20-2016

Here's one way to do it using test():

if (/^(ABC|XYZ|CAT)/i.test(value)) {   /* process TRUE condition */   }   // starts with ABC or XYZ or CAT, ignore case

Hope this helps.

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Derek10 · ‎12-21-2016

Thank you all for your assistance, all of you have been helpful in this. I had to mark the most useful as correct as it directly correlated to my scenario. But I appreciate the other two and can reference them as well in future endeavors!.