JavaScript/jQuery - How to check if a string contain specific words

Question

$a = \'how are you\';
if (strpos($a,\'are\') !== false) {
    echo \'true\';
}

In PHP, we can use the code above to check if a string contain speci

Answer 1

An easy way to do it to use Regex match() method :-

For Example

var str ="Hi, Its stacks over flow and stackoverflow Rocks."

// It will check word from beginning to the end of the string

if(str.match(/(^|\W)stack($|\W)/)) {

        alert('Word Match');
}else {

        alert('Word not found');
}

Check the fiddle

NOTE: For adding case sensitiveness update the regex with /(^|\W)stack($|\W)/i

Thanks