On Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Kris Kowal wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jordan Osete <jordan.osete at yahoo.fr> 
> wrote:
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> How about standardizing something like RegExp.escape() ?
>> http://simonwillison.net/2006/Jan/20/escape/
>>
>> It is trivial to implement, but it seems to me that this functionality
>> belongs to the language - the implementation obviously knows better
>> which characters must be escaped, and which ones don't need to.
>
> +1

+1, again.

Although this is only a minor convenience since you can do something like 
text.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|]/g, "\\$&"), the list of special 
characters is subject to change. E.g., if ES adds /x, whitespace (and 
possibly #) must be added.

-- Steven Levithan

+1, again.

Although this is only a minor convenience since you can do something like 
`text.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|]/g, "\\$&")`, the list of special 
characters is subject to change. E.g., if ES adds /x, whitespace (and 
possibly #) must be added.