Escape Regex

Escape regular expression special characters in order to make it able to be concatenated safely by users.

Example

extern crate escape_regex;

extern crate regex;

use regex::Regex;

let pattern = "123*456";
let escaped_pattern = escape_regex::escape_string(pattern);

let reg = Regex::new(&escaped_pattern).unwrap();

assert_eq!(true, reg.is_match("0123*4567"));

Crates.io

https://crates.io/crates/escape-regex

Documentation

https://docs.rs/escape-regex

License

MIT

lib.rs:

Escape Regex

Escape regular expression special characters in order to make it able to be concatenated safely by users.

Example

extern crate escape_regex;

extern crate regex;

use regex::Regex;

let pattern = "123*456";
let escaped_pattern = escape_regex::escape_string(pattern);

let reg = Regex::new(&escaped_pattern).unwrap();

assert_eq!(true, reg.is_match("0123*4567"));