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fix(find): respect spaces when query has no whitespace #20364

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fix(find): respect spaces when query has no whitespace
shreeMahadikGit Oct 14, 2025
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18 changes: 11 additions & 7 deletions web/pdf_find_controller.js
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Expand Up @@ -708,6 +708,11 @@ class PDFFindController {
#convertToRegExpString(query, hasDiacritics) {
const { matchDiacritics } = this.#state;
let isUnicode = false;
const rawQuery = this._rawQuery ?? this.#state?.query;
const queryHasWhitespace =
typeof rawQuery === "string"
? /\s/.test(rawQuery)
: Array.isArray(rawQuery) && rawQuery.some(q => /\s/.test(q));
query = query.replaceAll(
SPECIAL_CHARS_REG_EXP,
(
Expand All @@ -718,16 +723,16 @@ class PDFFindController {
p4 /* diacritics */,
p5 /* letters */
) => {
// We don't need to use a \s for whitespaces since all the different
// kind of whitespaces are replaced by a single " ".
// We don't need \s because all whitespace is normalized to a single " ".

if (p1) {
// Escape characters like *+?... to not interfere with regexp syntax.
return `[ ]*\\${p1}[ ]*`;
// Escaped metacharacters like . * + ? ...
// Allow spaces around them ONLY if the user typed spaces.
return queryHasWhitespace ? `[ ]*\\${p1}[ ]*` : `\\${p1}`;
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Why do you want to do that ?

}
if (p2) {
// Allow whitespaces around punctuation signs.
return `[ ]*${p2}[ ]*`;
// Punctuation: allow optional spaces ONLY if the user typed spaces.
return queryHasWhitespace ? `[ ]*${p2}[ ]*` : `${p2}`;
}
if (p3) {
// Replace spaces by \s+ to be sure to match any spaces.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -906,7 +911,6 @@ class PDFFindController {
.then(
textContent => {
const strBuf = [];

for (const textItem of textContent.items) {
strBuf.push(textItem.str);
if (textItem.hasEOL) {
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