How to match a substring from a string and equal it in a If Condition in Jquery?

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HI all i have some where there is Departments and department has some data like this

          Department
           Casual shoe
           formal shoe
           sports shoe

so i want to write an if condition where i should write an if condition like this

    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $.getJSON("/api/ProductLayout", function (data) {
            $.each(data, function (idx, ele) {
                $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#makeMeScrollable");
                $("#makeMeScrollable").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                if (ele.Department == "Shoes") {
                    alert(2);
                    //$(".img_main").empty();
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#Watches");
                    $("#Watches").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
                else if (ele.Department = "Wallets") {
                    alert(3);
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#BackPacks");
                    $("#BackPacks").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
                else if (ele.Department = "Belts") {
                    alert(4);
                    $("<img/>").attr({ src: ele.ImageURL }).appendTo("#Belts");
                    $("#Belts").append('<span>' + ele.ProductName + '</span><h4>' + ele.Price + '$' + '</h4>');
                }
             });
        });
    });      

</script>

now i ant to write an if condition for shoe where if (ele.Department == "Shoes") i should get all the data of deaprtments which has "shoe" in it,jow can i write an condition for this

Confused.. is Department a collection?

Lews Therin
– Lews Therin

2012-09-25 08:00:09 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:00 — Lews Therin
– Lews Therin, Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:00
In your condition use "==" not "="

Lews Therin
– Lews Therin

2012-09-25 08:02:00 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:02 — Lews Therin
– Lews Therin, Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:02
@LewsTherin yes department is a collection

SoftwareNerd
– SoftwareNerd

2012-09-25 08:12:38 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:12 — SoftwareNerd
– SoftwareNerd, Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:12
yes i fixed the condition use "==" not "="

SoftwareNerd
– SoftwareNerd

2012-09-25 08:13:01 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:13 — SoftwareNerd
– SoftwareNerd, Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 8:13

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:43:12Z

2

To answer you question about finding a substring..

I will try:

if(variableInQuestion.indexOf("shoes")!=-1)
{

}

And two of your if conditions use = not == you probably want to fix that.

UPDATE:

Looking at your question again..

"Formal shoes"
"Casual shoes"

Is it possible that you want an endsWith("shoes") method? If so: endsWith in JavaScript

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:43

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-26 14:04:47Z

1

I think you could use regular expressions:

this tests for shoes case insensitive. (match also "shoesprostore")

if (/shoes/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

this tests for the word shoes case insensitive. (match "Big Shoes" and "Small Shoes") (edit 4)

if (/\bshoes\b/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

edit:

this tests for the words shoe and shoes case insensitive.

if (/\bshoes?\b/i.test(ele.Department)) {
}

\b : start and finish of a word

? : the previous character may or may not be present

i (after the sencond /) : case insensitive

look here for more http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

:)

edit 2:

corrected grammar inconsistencies thanks to my friend SandMan

edit 3:

maybe you could save the regex in global scope (before the $(document).ready(...) statement) using

var shoeTest = /shoes/i; then

if (shoeTest.test(...))

edited Sep 26, 2012 at 14:04

answered Sep 25, 2012 at 8:14

user757095

2 Comments

Krishna Kumar Over a year ago

is ##if (/shoes/i.test(ele.Department))## working with firefox 3.6 too?

user757095 Over a year ago

yeah, tested with firefox 3.6.28

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