Highlight only entire words instead of partial words

bvaughn / react-highlight-words

React component to highlight words within a larger body of text

https://bvaughn.github.io/react-highlight-words/

MIT License

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Highlight only entire words instead of partial words #104

Closed italodeandra closed 1 year ago

italodeandra commented 1 year ago

I asked to highlight experince but I don't want it to highlight experienced. Is is possible?

sergei-startsev commented 1 year ago

@italodeandra you can either pass a regex string as search word (e.g. experience\\b) or pass a custom findChunks function (see examples in readme)