fix for escape characters

shivani170 · shivani170 · commit 994d0d03095e · 2024-02-07T13:31:47.000+05:30
diff --git a/src/components/common/helpers/Helpers.tsx b/src/components/common/helpers/Helpers.tsx
@@ -1014,8 +1014,8 @@ export const highlightSearchedText = (searchText: string, matchString: string):
         return matchString
     }
     const highlightText = (highlighted) => `<mark>${highlighted}</mark>`
-
-    const regex = new RegExp(searchText, 'gi')
+    const escapedSearchText = searchText.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'); // Escape special characters handling
+    const regex = new RegExp(escapedSearchText, 'gi');
     return matchString.replace(regex, highlightText)
 }
 

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1014,8 +1014,8 @@ export const highlightSearchedText = (searchText: string, matchString: string):`
`1014`	`1014`	`return matchString`
`1015`	`1015`	`}`
`1016`	`1016`	const highlightText = (highlighted) => `<mark>${highlighted}</mark>`
`1017`		`-`
`1018`		`- const regex = new RegExp(searchText, 'gi')`
	`1017`	`+ const escapedSearchText = searchText.replace(/[.*+?^${}()\|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'); // Escape special characters handling`
	`1018`	`+ const regex = new RegExp(escapedSearchText, 'gi');`
`1019`	`1019`	`return matchString.replace(regex, highlightText)`
`1020`	`1020`	`}`
`1021`	`1021`