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frontend/node_modules/escape-string-regexp/index.js

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+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = string => {
+	if (typeof string !== 'string') {
+		throw new TypeError('Expected a string');
+	}
+
+	// Escape characters with special meaning either inside or outside character sets.
+	// Use a simple backslash escape when it’s always valid, and a \unnnn escape when the simpler form would be disallowed by Unicode patterns’ stricter grammar.
+	return string
+		.replace(/[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g, '\\$&')
+		.replace(/-/g, '\\x2d');
+};