Trevor Kilvington trevorgk
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/ regex-escape.js
Created
February 19, 2016 14:44
Useful and clever regex worth understanding, taken from https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/01/ES6-Template-Strings?hl=en
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| // HTML Escape helper utility | |
| var util = (function () { | |
| // Thanks to Andrea Giammarchi | |
| var | |
| reEscape = /[&<>'"]/g, | |
| reUnescape = /&(?:amp|#38|lt|#60|gt|#62|apos|#39|quot|#34);/g, | |
| oEscape = { | |
| '&': '&', | |
| '<': '<', | |
| '>': '>', |