garysieling / garysieling/jquery-highlighttextarea

Regular expression problem in words array

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Description

I am getting an error: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression:
words: ['my string here'] here which contains special characters in my string that caused problem of this.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the invalid regular-expression error with the reported words array containing special characters, then trace how the words array is converted into a regular expression. Done means such input no longer raises the reported SyntaxError.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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