search.regex

Enable / disable escaping of regular expression characters in the search term.

1.10 Regular expressions can be used to build fantastically complex filtering terms, but also it is perfectly valid for users to enter characters such as `string *` into the filter, so a decision needs to be made if you wish to escape regular expression special characters or not. This option controls that ability in DataTables. It is simply a flag to indicate if the search term should be interpreted as a regular expression (`true`) or not (`false`) and therefore and special regex characters escaped. search searchCols search search.search search.caseInsensitive search.smart search() columns().search()