| Recipe 66 | Escaping a String for Use in a Regex |
Task
Imagine a scenario where you’re designing a search feature for an online bookstore. Within the app’s search functionality, there is a field where users can enter a partial title or author’s name to find the specific book they are looking for.
Your code involves using the user-provided string as a component of a regex to search a database. In order to safeguard your app from potential attacks, you should implement a function that escapes all regex metacharacters in the user-provided string before using it as a component of your search pattern.
Escaping ensures that the special characters within the string are properly handled and do not inadvertently affect the behavior of the regular expression. ...
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