Regexp: How can I find form fields named with specific character sequence in a form using javascript?

Question

I have a form which among others contains text inputs that contain arithmetic data (prices) The elements and their names are dynamically generated. I would like to only "find" fields that contain arithmetic values based on their names (i.e. an example element name would be price_500_365 (from price_PRODUCTID_ORDERID). So I want to find all text inputs containing "price" in their names or id's using regexp and sum them up. I am not sure how to do it. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can loop through the form's elements, like this:

var form = document.getElementById("myForm"), sum = 0;
for(var i=0; i<form.elements.length; i++) {
   var e = form.elements[i];
   if(e.type === 'text' && /price/.test(e.name)) sum += parseFloat(e.value);
}
alert(sum);

You can test it here, if you're not dealing with <input> elements strictly though, you may need to change up the if check to include/exclude more elements.