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Escape special characters in a regular expression
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| RegExp.escape = (function() { | |
| var special = /([.*+?^${}()|[\]\/\\])/g; | |
| return function escape(s) { | |
| return s.replace(special, '\\$1'); | |
| }; | |
| })(); |
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