From 17745ebc93e128fffee853c1cd2c392ff1c38049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SandyDatatables <sandy@datatables.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:13:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Split words on whitespace instead of non letters or
 numbers

Jira Issue DD-2077
---
 features/fuzzySearch/dataTables.fuzzySearch.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/features/fuzzySearch/dataTables.fuzzySearch.js b/features/fuzzySearch/dataTables.fuzzySearch.js
index a7660a2..65432bf 100644
--- a/features/fuzzySearch/dataTables.fuzzySearch.js
+++ b/features/fuzzySearch/dataTables.fuzzySearch.js
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         var threshold = initial.threshold !== undefined ? initial.threshold : 0.5;
     
         // Split the searchVal into individual words.
-        var splitSearch = searchVal.split(/[^(a-z|A-Z|0-9)]/g);
+        var splitSearch = searchVal.split(/ /g);
     
         // Array to keep scores in
         var highestCollated = [];
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
             data[i] = data[i].toLowerCase();
     
             // Split the data into individual words
-            var splitData = data[i].split(/[^(a-z|A-Z|0-9)]/g);
+            var splitData = data[i].split(/ /g);
     
             // Remove any empty words or spaces
             for (var y = 0; y < splitData.length; y++){