How to implement search through jquery by integer?

Question

JavaScript

Hey!
There was a big problem. I've always done a search like this:

var search = $.trim($('input').val()),
        reg = new RegExp(search, 'i');

$.each(search_data, function(key,val) {
        if (val.name.search(reg) != -1 || val.code.search(reg) != -1) {
            data[key] = {
                "name"  :  val.name,
                "code"  :  val.code
            };
        }
    });

that is, everything is simple - we take the value from the input, put it into a regular expression, and then look for occurrences in the loop. Everything has always worked fine for the lines, but here is the val.code field (here the code is presented as an integer). And an error pops up:

Uncaught TypeError: val.code.search is not a function

How to overcome it? Methods index, exec, test and so on give the same error.

Answer 1

Maybe

val.code.toString();
val.code.toString().search...