Regular expressions in jQuery selector

Question

Can I choose to use regex in jQuery? Sort of

$('input[name=^[a-z]+_[1-9].*]')

Answer 1

Nothing is built in there, but you can use the filter () method to achieve the same goal:

$('input').filter(function () { return /^[a-z]+_[1-9].*/.test(this.name); })

Answer 2

You can find the regex selector here (James Padolsey), so named in your case:

$('input:regex(name,^[a-z]+_[1-9].*)');