Get the startoffset and endoffset of a string from a string

Question

I am new to angularjs and webdevelopoment. Here, I do have on string and which is the selected string, its like -

var getSelectedText = function() {
  var text = "";
  if (typeof window.getSelection !== "undefined") {
    text = window.getSelection().toString();
  } else if (typeof document.selection !== "undefined" && document.selection.type === "Text") {
    text = document.selection.createRange().text;
  }
  $scope.annotations = annotationList();
  return text;
};

Now, this is getting selected from the a string which is show on tab. Now, Suppose ,

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this is a string and I want to get the start and endoffsets of a string which is the selected string

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So, How can I get this in javascript?

Matt Pengelly Matt Pengelly · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27T13:41:19

give this a try and check out the comments:

var str = 'a string to search for a value within, we can add as many words as we want here';

function findWithin(str, searchTerm){
  var index = str.indexOf(searchTerm);
  if(index !== -1){
    // at this point we know the string is within the text
    // the start offset will be the place we found the searchTerm
    // the end offset will be the length of the whole str minus the length from the start of the str to the end of the searchTerm

    var endOfSearchTerm = index + searchTerm.length;
    var endOffset = str.length - endOfSearchTerm;
    return { startOffset: index, endOffset:  endOffset}
  } else {
     return 'string not found in text!'
  }
}

findWithin(str, 'we can add as many')

Get the startoffset and endoffset of a string from a string

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