[RESOLVED] Possible to search for two words with RegExp

[szlamany]

This is not my code - but appears to be how a jQuery autocomplete can fill the array that shows when you start typing.

var matcher = new RegExp($.ui.autocomplete.escapeRegex(wesInput.val().toLowerCase()), "i");
var arraytoreturn = $.grep(wesInput.autocomplete("option", "source"), function(value) {
    return matcher.test(value.label || value.value || value);
});

So - if I have

SMITH, ANN
SMITH, JOHN
SMITH, JOHN AND AMY
SMITH, JOSEPH
SMITH, JOSEPH AND ANN

And I type SMITH, JOS

I currently get

SMITH, JOSEPH
SMITH, JOSEPH AND ANN

So I guess that means that the "standard no regexp escape sequences" means "find the data with left-most matching" - GENERIC as we called it back in the mainframe days.

What could I type that would tell the MATCHER.TEST function to return these two records (if it was a simple world it would be something like SMITH*ANN)

SMITH, ANN
SMITH, JOSEPH AND ANN