Added escaping utility function for RegExp

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, "\\$&");
+}