如何创建仅以空格后的字符串中的第一个字母或任何其他字母开头的自动完成功能

Question

In this fiddle autocomplete if I type letter "s" it shows listing which starts with "s" but I need all the listing starting with "s" and having space before "s".

Means if I type "s" then i should get both kind of results like "suraj kumar" & "nimish shah". Please someone suggest me solution.

jsfiddle.net/9R4cV/701/

Answer 1

I'm not a RegExp guru, so there might be more clever solutions, but here's an updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9R4cV/702/

    source: function(req, responseFn) {
    var re = $.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(req.term);
    var matcher = new RegExp( "^" + re, "i" );
    var matcher2 = new RegExp( "\\s" + re, "i" );
    var a = $.grep( aTags, function(item,index){
        return matcher.test(item) || matcher2.test(item);
    });
    responseFn( a );
}