I am working on predicting the search from an input.
Many searches will start with year/make/model of a car PLUS the part they are searching for
I would love if it was possible to predict after the year/make/model (or even anywhere inside the input after any text) but I'm not sure how to achieve this
eg: 2002 Honda S2000 Brake Ro
It should be able to compare "brake ro" to get "brake rotor" from the set of data

function predictSearch(input) {
    const results = [];
    for (i = 0; i < predictiondata.length; i  ) {
        if(input.toLowerCase() === predictiondata[i].slice(0, input.length).toLowerCase()) {
            if(results.length < 5) {
                results.push(predictiondata[i].toLowerCase());
            }
        }

    }
    return results;
}  

I have this but it specifically looks for the prediction data starting from the beginning of the input

CodePudding user response：

Are you using an SQL database to store the part names?

For a live search in an SQL db with ajax, in your SQL statement you can place percent signs (%) around the variable posted by the ajax, this will search the part names list for any matches to the string pattern from the input, the % signs allow it to check inside of the db's strings for any matches as well.

This video helped me in a similar situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsPAquMNVw&t=2s

CodePudding user response：

Rather than interpolating each string to determine if there's a match, it might be worth considering regex.test() to check if each predictiondata contains input anywhere.

function predictSearch(input) {
    const results = [];
    const regex = new RegExp(`${input}*`);
    for (i = 0; i < predictiondata.length; i  ) {
        // Check if input is in predictiondata[i]
        if (regex.test(predictiondata[i])) {
            if (results.length < 5) {
                results.push(predictiondata[i].toLowerCase());
            }
        }

    }
    return results;
}