basant307/AI_Governance_Project

1import toString from './toString.js';2 3/**4 * Used to match `RegExp`5 * [syntax characters](http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/#sec-patterns).6 */7var reRegExpChar = /[\\^$.*+?()[\]{}|]/g,8    reHasRegExpChar = RegExp(reRegExpChar.source);9 10/**11 * Escapes the `RegExp` special characters "^", "$", "\", ".", "*", "+",12 * "?", "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and "|" in `string`.13 *14 * @static15 * @memberOf _16 * @since 3.0.017 * @category String18 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape.19 * @returns {string} Returns the escaped string.20 * @example21 *22 * _.escapeRegExp('[lodash](https://lodash.com/)');23 * // => '\[lodash\]\(https://lodash\.com/\)'24 */25function escapeRegExp(string) {26  string = toString(string);27  return (string && reHasRegExpChar.test(string))28    ? string.replace(reRegExpChar, '\\$&')29    : string;30}31 32export default escapeRegExp;33