From 8b51f174d8bf23d958b9031d3bdb10f2d69decfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rhklee <32553665+rhklee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 22:29:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove backslash from search queries

Co-authored-by: Lee Randy <randy.lee@metronom.com>
Co-authored-by: Evan Hahn <69474926+EvanHahn-Signal@users.noreply.github.com>

See [#5053][0].

[0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/5053
---
 ts/test-both/util/cleanSearchTerm_test.ts | 13 +++++++++++++
 ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts                |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 ts/test-both/util/cleanSearchTerm_test.ts

diff --git a/ts/test-both/util/cleanSearchTerm_test.ts b/ts/test-both/util/cleanSearchTerm_test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..151231b1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ts/test-both/util/cleanSearchTerm_test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Copyright 2021 Signal Messenger, LLC
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+
+import { assert } from 'chai';
+import { cleanSearchTerm } from '../../util/cleanSearchTerm';
+
+describe('cleanSearchTerm', () => {
+  it('should remove \\ from a search term', () => {
+    const searchTerm = '\\search\\term';
+    const sanitizedSearchTerm = cleanSearchTerm(searchTerm);
+    assert.strictEqual(sanitizedSearchTerm, 'search* term*');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts b/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
index 6d6ba7edd..f77fa513c 100644
--- a/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
+++ b/ts/util/cleanSearchTerm.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 export function cleanSearchTerm(searchTerm: string): string {
   const lowercase = searchTerm.toLowerCase();
   const withoutSpecialCharacters = lowercase.replace(
-    /([!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~])/g,
+    /([-!"#$%&'()*+,./\\:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~])/g,
     ' '
   );
   const whiteSpaceNormalized = withoutSpecialCharacters.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');