over 32 characters

[elijahdorman]

Is there a reason for not switching algorithms at 33 characters to an exact match algorithm? It would be seemless to the user and improve user experience (most people typing that much are wanting a fairly exact match anyway).

As it stands in my current project, I have to deal with the error by checking the length and falling back to str.indexOf(searchStr) each time. Building this in seems much more desirable.

[krisk]

For clarification, are you referring to the maxPatternLength, currently defaulted to 32? Hence if the pattern length > maxPatternLength, then you're suggesting to perhaps make it fall back to an indexOf search?

[elijahdorman]

That is correct.

str.match(new RegExp(searchStr, "ig") might also be a solution, but it would be a lot slower.

[krisk]

Ok, I will put in some thoughts on this. Meanwhile, let's make this a feature request. Thanks!

[in2lag]

+1, not sure if this project is still alive, but if yes, this would be sweet