regexp-escape-x

ECMAScript proposed RegExp.escape.

See: RegExp.escape

module.exports(string) ⇒ string ⏏

Method to safely escape RegExp special tokens for use in new RegExp.

Kind: Exported function
Returns: string - The escaped string.
Throws:

• TypeError If string is null or undefined or not coercible.

| Param | Type | Description | | ------ | ------------------- | ------------------------- | | string | string | The string to be escaped. |

Example

import regexpEscape from 'regexp-escape-x';

const str = 'hello. how are you?';
const regex = new RegExp(regexpEscape(str), 'g');
console.log(String(regex)); // '/hello\. how are you\?/g'