Finding all elements whose Id starts with a specific word using jQuery

Some time we come across with a problem where we have a lots of elements in HTML or JSP page which is generated dynamically and their ID starts with some special word.
Like as follows


<input id="item_1fruit" name="fruit" type="text"  value=" Mango" />
<input id="item_2veg" name="vegetable" type="text" value="Potato" />
<input id="item_3eggs" name="eggs" type="text" value="Eggs" />
<input id="item_4nuts" name="nuts" type="text" value="Almonds"/>

So above we can get all elements in jQuery as follow

$("[div^=item_]")   // do whatever you want
 In below code we are iterating all the elements and setting some values.

$("[div^=item_]").each(function(){

     var text_value= $(this).val();
      alert("Text box value "+text_value);
        });