Unable to Find & (ampersand character) correctly

[jochristianto]

My data include names like "A & B", "B & C", "D&E", etc.

If you try to find "A &" or "D&", it is still working.

But once you try "A & B", it will fail. It will only success if you search it as "A & B".

[Stolzenhain]

this relates to #147

Ampersands belong to special HTML chars¹, so the item value does not contain & but & as a string value. This might be the reason why A & produces results, whereas & B doesn't.

On my side, this doesn't happen on searches, so there might be further conversions.

Various conversions happen to the strings due to how the values are parsed, see #19 which leads to ampersands being found by searching for amp.

Also note: JS returning things like the value attribute with converted ampersands – whereas the value string in a list.js item keeps the escaped char, making it impossible to compare².

Footnotes

1. see: Handlebars Char escaper ↩

2. it's easier in this case to replace special char in input values like this

   input.value.replace(/&/g, "&")
   

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