On Wednesday, Jan 04, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Kris Kowal wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jordan Osete <[email protected]>
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
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