select2 search - match only words that start with search term

Question

I migrated from chosen to select2 plugin because it works better for me, but its documentation is very poor when compared to chosen. Could anyone tell me what option(s) shou

Answer 1

Select2 provides an example in the documentation on how to use a custom matcher function for matching search terms to search results. The example given is this exact use case.

function matchStart (term, text) {
  if (text.toUpperCase().indexOf(term.toUpperCase()) == 0) {
    return true;
  }
 
  return false;
}
 
$.fn.select2.amd.require(['select2/compat/matcher'], function (oldMatcher) {
  $("select").select2({
    matcher: oldMatcher(matchStart)
  })
});

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