filter value with "." getting appended with "/" in the multiselect

[ghost]

Hi Buddy ,

The multiselect filter with . in the search value is giving a "/" append to the value before "." i found it is happending in the line

stringForSearch = stringForSearch.replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()[]/])/g, "$1");

of doFilterMultiSelect module

can you help me in understaning the need of above code so that i can modify it as needed with out effecting other chnages.

Example
BC01.03|BC03.01 has become.
BC01.03|BC03.01

[vedmack]

Hi,

That code escapes regex characters, so later on I can use that string to perform regex filtering,
for example, if user types 20$ in filter input, I have to escape the $, otherwise when doing the filtering it would be treated as a regex sign and not a plain $ (dollar)

Paste those problematic values in your multi select.

[vedmack]

Found out that the | was doing the troubles, fixed it in 0.8.7.beta.9 you can grab it from https://github.com/vedmack/yadcf/blob/master/lab/jquery.dataTables.yadcf.js