Strict search on a "sentence" w/ FindMultiple — missing hoped-for result

[victorDECLAU]

Hello 👋 ,

I'm currently struggling with ngxExtendedPdfViewerService.findMultiple(['cats and dogs'], options)
My intention is to make the search of the string 'firstWord secondWord' strict, as it is when using of WholeWord option on a regular .find() call.

However, the space in the string seems to act like a separator, so the results of my search are equivalent to the results produced by a `.findMultiple(['cats', 'and, 'dogs'], options);

My architecture doesn't allow me to use the regular find method for sentences like 'cats and dogs', as I need to keep ongoing multi-search results available to the user. Typical findMultiple use in my case would be .findMultiple(['birds', 'narval', 'cats and dogs'], options) and I only want 'cats and dogs' strict sentence occurrences to be found.

What I tried so far :

• Replacing spaces with ASCII \xA0 code -> not working
• Setting WholeWorld option to true -> not working

Is there a fine tuning, or pure code workaround i'm missing to make this happen ?

Versions used :

• angular 12.2.18
• ngx-extended-pdf-viewer 15.0.9

Thanks for reading,
Victor

[stephanrauh]

You've found a bug! When you open the find bar of the UI, you'll see the feature is broken there, too.

BTW, the "findMultipleSearchTexts" feature separates search terms by \n, not \r (which is 0x0A, not 0xA0). You were close! However, the idea of the API is to hide this arcane technical detail from you.

[victorDECLAU]

Thank you very much for the quick answer Stephan.

You mention a difficult merge conflict resulting in this behavior : would you happen to know in between which versions the regression occurred ?
I'm considering downgrading temporarily to bypass the issue.

Best regards

[victorDECLAU]

Just found out v13.5.3 delivers hoped-for results :)

[stephanrauh]

Yeah, I guess that bit of insight helps me. Thanks!

[stephanrauh]

Your bugfix has landed with version 15.1.1.

[victorDECLAU]

Thank you very much for you quick fix. It works perfectly :)