How do you search multiple strings with the .search() Method?

Question

Can the .search Method only search for one string? Or is there a way to get one single .search command to search for multiple strings at once? (By the way, I tried the following code:y.search("c", "b", "a"), where y is an text box input.)

Answer 1

You can't use multiple arguments, but you can use a regex with the or operator (|) like so:

y.search(/c|b|a/);

This method will work for characters that are more than one character long, as well:

y.search(/string1|string2|string3/);