From bb2065cf07979f85f3a01eab5f5d441754858216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KoloMl <thekolomoets@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 03:42:03 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added escaping utility function for RegExp

---
 src/lib/utils.js | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/utils.js b/src/lib/utils.js
index db17ea5..c7a6531 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils.js
+++ b/src/lib/utils.js
@@ -21,3 +21,23 @@ export function findDeepObject(targetObject, path) {
 
   return result;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Matches all the characters needing replacement.
+ *
+ * Gathered from right here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3561711/16048617. Because I don't want to introduce some
+ * library for that.
+ *
+ * @type {RegExp}
+ */
+const unsafeRegExpCharacters = /[/\-\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g;
+
+/**
+ * Escape all the RegExp syntax-related characters in the following value.
+ * @param {string} value Original value.
+ * @return {string} Resulting value with all needed characters escaped.
+ */
+export function escapeRegExp(value) {
+  unsafeRegExpCharacters.lastIndex = 0;
+  return value.replace(unsafeRegExpCharacters, "\\$&");
+}