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Now i came across this issue and i thought it something i should share after getting past it.
A little back story
So, i am working on a chat platform using react native and i have to integrate the search in chat logic but the twist to it is that the text i am searching through is in an HTML form which makes it require a different approach.
So now you get the point, let's go straight to the code.
...
const {width} = useWindowDimensions();
const escapeRegExp = (text: string) => {
return text.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'); // $& means the whole matched string
};
const replaceAll = (str: string, match: string, replacement: any) => {
if (str === undefined || str === null) {
return '';
}
return str.replace(new RegExp(escapeRegExp(match), 'g'), () => replacement);
};
let txt = replaceAll(textProps?.text, '\n\n', '<br><br>');
txt = replaceAll(textProps?.text, '\n', '<br>');
const highlightedText = txt
.replace(
new RegExp(textProps?.searchedWord, 'gi'),
`<span style="background-color: #FF842D;">${textProps?.searchedWord}</span>`,
);
...
return (
<View>
<HTML
contentWidth={width}
source={{html: `<div style="color:white;">${highlightedText}</div>`}}
/>
</View>
);
};
...
So the escapeRegExp function is replacing all of the characters in text except for letters, numbers, and symbols.
The replaceAll function: The first line checks if str is undefined or null.
If it's not then it continues on to the next line where it performs a search and replace operation on str using escapeRegExp() and new RegExp().
Then we have the highlightedText constant which searches through to get the searched word and replace with a new span with a background color. Which is further put in the HTML tag from the react-native-render-html package. And there you have it. Leave a like if you think this is helpful. Thanks.
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