jQuery selector regular expressions

Question

I am after documentation on using wildcard or regular expressions (not sure on the exact terminology) with a jQuery selector.

I have looked for this myself but have

Answer 1

I'm just giving my real time example:

In native javascript I used following snippet to find the elements with ids starts with "select2-qownerName_select-result".

document.querySelectorAll("[id^='select2-qownerName_select-result']");

When we shifted from javascript to jQuery we've replaced above snippet with the following which involves less code changes without disturbing the logic.

$("[id^='select2-qownerName_select-result']")