Add regex.escape
#677
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Looking into things a bit further it seems like the Regex syntax for each platform might be similar enough in terms of matacharacter usage that this won't be a big lift. Even though the JS Regex Syntax seems to have more features if we escape common metacharacters (see the Erlang re docs) things might just work. |
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From my testing, the following should work here. |
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This would take a string and return a string with all regex-specific characters escaped so that it would match the literal string if compiled to a regex. It would be useful when you want to exactly match part of a string while partially matching other parts a string. I'm not sure how difficult this would be to add though because of the differences between JS and Erlang regex syntax.
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