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4th July 2010 - Link Blog

Escaping regular expression characters in JavaScript (updated). The JavaScript regular expression meta-character escaping code I posted back in 2006 has some serious flaws—I’ve just posted an update to the original post.

Posted 4th July 2010 at 6:23 pm

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escaping 4 javascript 760 regular-expressions 37 recovered 213

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