JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Roko

JavaScript

const str = "Are you here Ed? Have you seen my red baloon"
const searchTxt = "ed?"
const regEscape = v => v.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
const strArr = str.split(new RegExp(regEscape(searchTxt), "ig"));
console.log(strArr);