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Regular Expression
Created·2016-12-14 11:00
Flavor·ECMAScript (JavaScript)

/
([-\[\]{}()*+?.,\\\/^$|#])
/
g
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Description

This expression escapes characters, which have a special meaning in regex, like .?[]/ and so on. Use it to transform a string that you want to use literally in another regex. This is the second version, bug in replace string has been fixed.

Submitted by Florian Andresen