| var toString = require('./toString'); | |
| 
 | |
| /** | |
|  * Used to match `RegExp` | |
|  * [syntax characters](http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/#sec-patterns). | |
|  */ | |
| var reRegExpChar = /[\\^$.*+?()[\]{}|]/g, | |
|     reHasRegExpChar = RegExp(reRegExpChar.source); | |
| 
 | |
| /** | |
|  * Escapes the `RegExp` special characters "^", "$", "\", ".", "*", "+", | |
|  * "?", "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and "|" in `string`. | |
|  * | |
|  * @static | |
|  * @memberOf _ | |
|  * @since 3.0.0 | |
|  * @category String | |
|  * @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape. | |
|  * @returns {string} Returns the escaped string. | |
|  * @example | |
|  * | |
|  * _.escapeRegExp('[lodash](https://lodash.com/)'); | |
|  * // => '\[lodash\]\(https://lodash\.com/\)' | |
|  */ | |
| function escapeRegExp(string) { | |
|   string = toString(string); | |
|   return (string && reHasRegExpChar.test(string)) | |
|     ? string.replace(reRegExpChar, '\\$&') | |
|     : string; | |
| } | |
| 
 | |
| module.exports = escapeRegExp;
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