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x/fresh/src/server/deps.ts>escape

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function escape
import { escape } from "https://dotland.deno.dev/x/fresh@1.7.3/src/server/deps.ts";

Escapes arbitrary text for interpolation into a regexp, such that it will match exactly that text and nothing else.

Examples

Example 1

import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/regexp/mod.ts";
import { assertEquals, assertMatch, assertNotMatch } from "https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/assert/mod.ts";

const re = new RegExp(`^${escape(".")}$`, "u");

assertEquals("^\\.$", re.source);
assertMatch(".", re);
assertNotMatch("a", re);

Parameters

str: string

Returns

string