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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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SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /?/: Nothing to repeat #67

Closed Steven24K closed 5 years ago

Steven24K commented 5 years ago

When I try to highlight a word that starts with "?" than it throws the following exception: image

I don't know if this is a bug or that I am doing something wrong, but the issue seems to be in the npm package.

bvaughn commented 5 years ago

Check out the autoEscape prop mentioned in docs. Should fix things for you!