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Escape Regular Expression Characters in String

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Escape all special regex characters (.*+?|()[]{}\) from a string. Useful when dynamically building a Regular Expression object based on input text that could hold regex characters.

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  1. RegExp.escape = function(str)
  2. {
  3.   var specials = new RegExp("[.*+?|()\\[\\]{}\\\\]", "g"); // .*+?|()[]{}\
  4.   return str.replace(specials, "\\$&");
  5. }

URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/280793/case-insensitive-string-replacement-in-javascript

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