How to search an array in Jquery like SQL LIKE value% statement [duplicate]

Try this:-

arr = jQuery.grep(a, function (value) {
    search = /c/gi;
    if(value.match(search)) return true;
        return false;
    });

or

function find(arr) {
    var result = [];

    for (var i in arr) {
        if (arr[i].match(/c/)) {
            result.push(arr[i]);
        }
    }

    return result;
}

window.onload = function() {
    console.log(find(["foo","fool","cool","god","acl"]));
};

Use substring to check if each string in the array begins with the string you are searching for:

var strings = [ "foo", "cool", "acl" ];
var needle = "c";

for (var i = 0; i < strings.length; ++i) {
    if (strings[i].substring(0, needle.length) === needle) {
        alert("found: " + strings[i]);
    }
}

A simple way to do it is to check for words starting with 'c' and iterate of the array.

var ar = ['acl','cool','cat']
for(var i = 0 ; i<ar.length ; i++){
   console.log(ar[i].match(/^c/))
}
//Prints:
//null
//["c", index: 0, input: "cool"]
//["c", index: 0, input: "cat"]

You can use the filter method which is available since JavaScript 1.6. It will give you back an array with the filtered values. Very handy if you want to match multiple items.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/filter

var a = ["foo","fool","cool","god","acl"];
var startsWith = 'c';

a.filter(function (value) {
    return value && value.length > 0 && value[0] == startsWith;
});

// yields: ["cool"]

var a = ["foo","fool","cool","god","acl"];
var Character="f";
for(i=0;i<a.length;i++){
    if(a[i].indexOf(Character)!=-1){

        document.write(a[i]+"<br/>");
    }
 }