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// Thanks to Andrew Clover:
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3561493
// /is-there-a-regexp-escape-function-in-javascript

'use strict';

var re = /[\-\/\\\^$*+?.()|\[\]{}]/g;

module.exports = function (str) { return String(str).replace(re, '\\$&'); };