<p>Filters the objects in this collection by a set of {@link Ext.util.Filter Filter}s, or by a single
property/value pair with optional parameters for substring matching and case sensitivity. See
{@link Ext.util.Filter Filter} for an example of using Filter objects (preferred). Alternatively,
MixedCollection can be easily filtered by property like this:</p>

//create a simple store with a few people defined
var people = new Ext.util.MixedCollection();
people.addAll([
{id: 1, age: 25, name: 'Ed'},
{id: 2, age: 24, name: 'Tommy'},
{id: 3, age: 24, name: 'Arne'},
{id: 4, age: 26, name: 'Aaron'}
]);

//a new MixedCollection containing only the items where age == 24
var middleAged = people.filter('age', 24);

@param {Ext.util.Filter[]/String} property A property on your objects, or an array of {@link Ext.util.Filter Filter} objects
@param {String/RegExp} value Either string that the property values
should start with or a RegExp to test against the property
@param {Boolean} [anyMatch=false] True to match any part of the string, not just the beginning
@param {Boolean} [caseSensitive=false] True for case sensitive comparison.
@return {Ext.util.MixedCollection} The new filtered collection
@since Ext 1
function(property, value, anyMatch, caseSensitive) {
        var filters = [];

        //support for the simple case of filtering by property/value
        if (Ext.isString(property)) {
            filters.push(new Ext.util.Filter({
                property     : property,
                value        : value,
                anyMatch     : anyMatch,
                caseSensitive: caseSensitive
            }));
        } else if (Ext.isArray(property) || property instanceof Ext.util.Filter) {
            filters = filters.concat(property);
        }

        // At this point we have an array of zero or more Ext.util.Filter objects to filter with,
        // so here we construct a function that combines these filters by ANDing them together
        // and filter by that.
        return this.filterBy(Ext.util.Filter.createFilterFn(filters));
    }