I'm working on a re-write of the VFP app GoFish (search and replace tool).
One thing I am doing with the new version is that internally I'm using
Regular Expressions to perform the search rather than the original way it
worked which was that it just used the $ function to look for a string
match.
So the user will enter a search string which could very likely contain some
characters that are reserved characters in regular expressions. (i.e.
^[]\{}.,;+-$ etc.) I need to escape those characters in the user input so
the reg ex search will work properly.
There are lots of way one could iterate over the input string to escape all
the special characters, and I'm sure there are some trick one must figure
out to do it correctly, so, before I re-invent the wheel here, I'm asking
around to see if anyone already has the code to do this.
Anyone?
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