Selecting values from XML file using wildcards

[oconndav]

Hi,I hoping this is a fairly simple request but I have not been able to find a solution anywhere...I am trying to execute the if statement below so that it executes if the value of "firstname" begins with the letter A. I had hoped that adding the * wildcard would do the trick but no luck.Basically I have this running inside a loop which goes through the complete XML file, I want it to only process values begining with certain letters.If anyone coudl help me out it would be much appreciated.

aa=x[i].getElementsByTagName("firstname")	bb = aa[0].firstChild.data	if (bb=="A*")		{

[boen_robot]

The real question is how find if any string starts with another. I don't know if JS has a function explicitly for that, but you should be able to do it with match() like so:

if (bb.match("^A.*"))

It's probably not the most efficient way, but it should work non the less.

[oconndav]

thanks - that works great.