How to escape regular expression special characters using javascript

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I need to escape the regular expression special characters using java script How can i achieve this Any help should be appreciated     Thanks for your quick reply But i need to escape all the special characters of regular expression I have try by this code But i can t achieve the result   RegExp escape function str                                if   arguments callee sRE                        var specials                                                                                                                                                                 arguments callee sRE   new RegExp                              specials join                gim                                                       return str replace arguments callee sRE      1                    function regExpFind                  lt  --var regex   new RegExp     munees      gim   --  gt                      var regex  new RegExp RegExp escape   Munees waran                          lt  --var regex RegExp escape enter code here    Munees waran   --  gt                      alert  Reg     regex                       What i am wrong with this code Please guide me

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Use the backslash to escape a character  For example      d    This will match  d instead of a numeric character

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Use the   character to escape a character that has special meaning inside a regular expression  To automate it  you could use this  function escapeRegExp text      return text replace   -                   s  g       amp        Update  There is now a proposal to standardize this method  possibly in ES2016  https   github com benjamingr RegExp escape Update  The abovementioned proposal was rejected  so keep implementing this yourself if you need it

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With   you escape special characters     Escapes special characters to literal and literal characters to special       E g     s    matches   s   while    s   matches any whitespace and captures the match    Source  http   www javascriptkit com javatutors redev2 shtml

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