How to show the data if the column does not starts with a specific string in javascript

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Hi,
I have a datatable that has 7 columns. It should not display the data in datatable that starts with "ABC" text for column index 0.Tried the below solution but didn't work Please help.

What I have tried:

$(document).ready( function () {
$('#ttable').DataTable( {
'order': [[ 0, 'asc' ]],
'pageLength': 10
} );
oTable = $('#ttable').dataTable();
oTable.fnFilter('ABC', 0, true, false);
} );

Posted 6-Feb-17 22:54pm

User1454

Updated 7-Feb-17 5:51am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2017-02-07T05:51:00

Solution 1

According to the documentation[^] of the legacy methods, when you pass true as the 3rd parameter, the 1st parameter is treated as a Regular Expression[^].

So, to filter out any rows where the first column starts with "ABC", use:

oTable.fnFilter('^(?!ABC)', 0, true, false);

Posted 7-Feb-17 5:51am

Richard Deeming

Updated 8-Feb-17 1:43am

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User1454 7-Feb-17 23:01pm

Wow! Its working .. thanks a lot!! .. So what about the 3rd parameter?

Richard Deeming 8-Feb-17 7:45am

Sorry, I misread the documentation. The 3rd parameter controls whether the string is a regular expression; the 4th parameter turns off "smart filtering". If you're using a regular expression, you'll always want to turn off smart filtering too.

User1454 9-Feb-17 0:38am

:)