regexp-escape-x

regexp-escape-x

ECMAScript proposed RegExp.escape.

See: RegExp.escape
Version: 2.0.2
Author: Xotic750 [e-mail]
License: MIT
Copyright: Xotic750

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

var regexpEscape = require('regexp-escape-x');

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