SO Help: jquery how to select option using Regex

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8914296/javascript-regular-expressions-with-jquery-contains-regex-extension

by SpYk3

HTML

<select name="check_in" class="required">
    <option value="">Year</option>
        <option value="2013" selected="selected">2013</option>  
        <option value="2014">2014</option>
        <option value="3452014345">dfg2014dfg</option>
        <option value="2015">2015</option>
        <option value="1234">2015 here in just text</option>
        <option value="2014 here in just value">blah blah</option>
        <option value="2016">2016</option>
</select>

<select name="check_out" class="required">
    <option value="">Year</option>  
        <option value="2013" selected="selected">2013</option>  
        <option value="2014">2014</option>
        <option value="2015">2015</option>   
        <option value="2016">2016</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('option').filter(function(i) { return /(2014|2015)/.test(this.value) || /(2014|2015)/.test($(this).text()); }).remove();