Escape Regular Expression Characters in String - JavaScript Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 9537

at November 11, 2008 09:41 by kouphax

Initial Code

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

Initial URL

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

Initial Description

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.

Initial Title

Escape Regular Expression Characters in String

Initial Tags

regex, javascript

Initial Language

JavaScript

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