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RegExp.escape()

Limited availability
Tags: javascript

The RegExp.escape() static method takes a string and replaces any characters that are potentially special characters of a regular expression with equivalent escape sequences. For example, RegExp.escape("[abc]") returns "\\[abc\\]".

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