exact filter in angular

Question

In Angular, is there a way to modify the filter such that it only returns exact matches?

Example:

var words = [
    {   title: \"ball\"   },
    {            


        

Answer 1

UPDATE

Starting from AngularJS v.1.1.3 the exact filtering is provided natively:

Find words that exactly match title: 



and exactly match type: 



  

   
{{word.title}}
 
  

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---

Your question implies that you would want to match against multiple object properties so here's a filter that does that:

app.controller('AppController',
    [
      '$scope',
      function($scope) {
        $scope.match = {};
        $scope.words = [
          { title: "ball", type: 'object' },
          { title: "wall", type: 'object' },
          { title: "all", type: 'word' },
          { title: "alloy", type: 'material' }
        ];
        
      }
    ]
  );
  
app.filter('exact', function(){
  return function(items, match){
    var matching = [], matches, falsely = true;
    
    // Return the items unchanged if all filtering attributes are falsy
    angular.forEach(match, function(value, key){
      falsely = falsely && !value;
    });
    if(falsely){
      return items;
    }
    
    angular.forEach(items, function(item){ // e.g. { title: "ball" }
      matches = true;
      angular.forEach(match, function(value, key){ // e.g. 'all', 'title'
        if(!!value){ // do not compare if value is empty
          matches = matches && (item[key] === value);  
        }
      });
      if(matches){
        matching.push(item);  
      }
    });
    return matching;
  }
});

  Find words that exactly match title: 
  
  

  and exactly match type: 
  
  

  

    

     
{{word.title}}
 
    
  
  

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