export function cleanSearchTerm(searchTerm: string): string { const lowercase = searchTerm.toLowerCase(); const withoutSpecialCharacters = lowercase.replace( /([!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~])/g, ' ' ); const whiteSpaceNormalized = withoutSpecialCharacters.replace(/\s+/g, ' '); const byToken = whiteSpaceNormalized.split(' '); const withoutSpecialTokens = byToken.filter( token => token && token !== 'and' && token !== 'or' && token !== 'not' && token !== ')' && token !== '(' && token !== '+' && token !== ',' && token !== 'near' ); const withWildcards = withoutSpecialTokens.map(token => `${token}*`); return withWildcards.join(' ').trim(); }