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Regex.escape

Regex.escapeexpression

Documentation​

Escape the special characters in expression such that the result is a valid literal pattern for the original string.

Arguments​

  • expression: The expression to escape metacharacters in.

Examples​

Turn a Text into a regex that matches that string exactly.​

      example_escape =
          literal_string = "\!\.|abcde"
          Regex.escape literal_string