2012/3/23 Steven Levithan <[email protected]>: > 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.
In perl the recommended version is text.replace(/([^a-zA-Z0-9])/g, "\\$1") which is future-proof and safe and I think this also works for JS. -- Erik Corry _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
