polyfill-regexp-escape v1.0.0

RegExp.escape

RegExp.escape returns a string with escaped regular expression characters for use within a regular expression.

Usage

var strName = 'Dr. Doogie Howser, M.D.';

var escName = RegExp.escape(strName); // Dr\. Doogie Howser, M\.D\.

var regName = new RegExp('\\b' + escName + '\\b'); // /\bDr\. Doogie Howser, M\.D\.\b/

Browser compatibility

All modern browsers are supported, including:

• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera

• Safari

• Android 2.2+

• Blackberry 7+
• iOS Safari 4+

Prollyfill status

If you would like to see RegExp.escape in a JavaScript standard, subscribe to the ECMAScript List and request to have it added it to an ECMA Specification.

This project was inspired by Stuart P. Bentley’s Specifiction Topic. After reading it, I decided to throw this together.

RegExp.escape.js is 323B or 107B minified and gzipped.