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Antonio Ruiz
Asked: 2020-10-15 08:57:05 +0800 CST 2020-10-15 08:57:05 +0800 CST

Is it possible to search in javascript with .startsWith omitting tildes?

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I am working with the following function to search for a term entered in a search engine.

I search for a value within an array, at a specific position in the array to check if it exists.

/***** BUSCAR EN EL ARRAY PRODUCTOS POR VALOR Y POSICION ****/
function buscar(mi_array, valor, pos){
    count = 0;
    var results = mi_array.filter(function (mi_array) { return (mi_array[pos].toUpperCase().startsWith(valor.toUpperCase())) && count++ < 36; }); 
    var firstObj = (results.length > 0) ? results[0] : null;
    return results;

}

My problem comes when the user looks for a product with a tilde and in the array where he looks for the function it is without a tilde and vice versa.

How could I deal with this problem?

javascript

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try replacing the startWith(...) in the return with the following:

    startsWith(valor.toUpperCase()
.replace("Á","A")
.replace("É","E")
.replace("Í","I")
.replace("Ó","O")
.replace("Ú","U")
.replace("Ü","U"))

    It should work as it converts all accented vowels or ü's to their respective vowels.

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