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<p>Yeah, I know, once I created this horrible meme:</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/bpfn2020/status/1225431875923124225/photo/1" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk968170" style="font-size:12pt">https://twitter.com/bpfn2020/status/1225431875923124225/photo/1</a><br>
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<p>(This actually was in production for some time.)</p>
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<p>But seriously, regex escaping is kind of a standard operation IMHO. We also already have #escapeHtmlText and others on String. There are legit use cases, but clients should definitely double-check whether their scenario actually requires escaping.</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Christoph</p>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2021 01:38:28<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Regex-Core-ct.61.mcz</font>
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> On 2021-07-07, at 11:30 PM, commits@source.squeak.org wrote:<br>
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> Adds String >> #escapeRegex to escape special characters in a string before composing it into another regex.<br>
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Take care with escaping special characters.<br>
<a href="https://xkcd.com/1638/">https://xkcd.com/1638/</a><br>
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