An AngularJS filter for searching by a regular expression
var items = ['hook',
{name: 'peter', surname: 'pan', address: {country: 'neverland', number: '12'}},
['wendy'],
121242];
expect(regex(items, '').length).toBe(4);
expect(regex(items, '.*oo.*').length).toBe(1);
expect(regex(items, '.*oo.*')[0]).toBe('hook');
expect(regex(items, '.*pa.*').length).toBe(1);
expect(regex(items, '.*pa.*')[0]).toEqual(items[1]);
expect(regex(items, '.*nd.*').length).toBe(2);
expect(regex(items, '.*nd.*')).toEqual([items[1], items[2]]);
expect(regex(items, '.*12.*').length).toBe(2);
expect(regex(items, '.*12.*')).toEqual([items[1], 121242]);
expect(regex(items, '.*land$').length).toBe(1);
expect(regex(items, '.*land$')[0]).toEqual(items[1]);
expect(regex(items, "I don't exist").length).toBe(0);
bower install --save angular-regex-filter
Include src/angular-regex-filter.js or dist/angular-regex-filter.js to your project.
<script src="/bower_components/angular-regex-filter/dist/angular-regex-filter.js"></script>
Don't forget to add regex.filter module to app's dependecies.
$ npm install
$ bower install
$ gulp test
$ gulp js