derhuerst/escape-regex.js

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escaping regular expression chars

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escape-regex.js

	// from http://blog.simonwillison.net/post/57956816139/escape
	module.exports = (regex) => regex.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$\|#\s]/g, '\\$&')

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