Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

Escape regex meta characters

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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

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.

Submitted by Florian Andresen - 8 years ago