JavaScript quotemeta

Quotes meta characters

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function quotemeta (str) {
    // Quotes meta characters  
    // 
    // version: 909.322
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/quotemeta    // +   original by: Paulo Ricardo F. Santos
    // *     example 1: quotemeta(". + * ? ^ ( $ )");
    // *     returns 1: '\. \+ \* \? \^ \( \$ \)'
    return (str+'').replace(/([\.\\\+\*\?\[\^\]\$\(\)])/g, '\\$1');
}

Examples

Running

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quotemeta(". + * ? ^ ( $ )");

Should return

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'\. \+ \* \? \^ \( \$ \)'

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

Open syntax issues

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Authors

Thanks to the following developers, you get to have quotemeta goodness in JavaScript.

• Paulo Ricardo F. Santos ( original )

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