Updated to split at all non-alphanumeric characters, not just space

features/searchHighlight/dataTables.searchHighlight.js

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ $(document).on( 'init.dt.dth', function (e, settings, json) {
 
 				// Don't highlight the "not found" row
 				if ( table.rows( { filter: 'applied' } ).data().length ) {
-					body.highlight( table.search().split(' ') );
+					body.highlight( table.search().split(/[^0-9A-Za-z]/) );
 				}
 			} )
 			.on( 'destroy', function () {