RegExp. quoteText()
# Claude Pache (12 years ago)
The complete list of characters that should be escaped is:
. \ + * ? [ ^ ] $ ( ) { } = ! < > | : -
(taken from 1). Importantly, characters that have special meaning only in some context should also be included. For example, consider the hyphen -, which has special meaning only inside [...]: People may want to write:
var charList = 'abcd123-_';
var re = new RegExp( '[' + RegExp.quote(charList) + ']' )
in order to construct a regexp that matches any character of charList.
# Andrea Giammarchi (12 years ago)
quick one: the hyphen has meaning only inside squared brackets and between
ranges ... this has no meaning [_-] so doesn't this [a-]
This must have been suggested before, but it would be great to have a built-in function for quoting text in a RegExp.
For example:
RegExp.quoteText = function (text) { return text.replace(/[\^\$\\.*+?()[\]{}|]/g, '\\\$&'); };If you wanted to be extra thorough, you could include parens, braces and brackets.
This must have been suggested before, but it would be great to have a built-in function for quoting text in a RegExp. For example: ```js RegExp.quoteText = function (text) { return text.replace(/[\^\$\\.*+?()[\]{}|]/g, '\\\$&'); }; ``` If you wanted to be extra thorough, you could include parens, braces and brackets. -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer axel at rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20130828/0859eb58/attachment.html>