Il 10/12/19 14:54, Arthur O'Dwyer via Std-Proposals ha scritto:
> Btw, I should have mentioned Google RE2 among the state of the art. RE2
> basically treats regexes as strings (rather than forcing every regex to
> be "compiled" into a non-string object like std::regex). RE2 does
> provide `re2::QuoteMeta()` which takes a string and returns a string and
> does exactly what you asked for.
> https://github.com/google/re2/blob/master/re2/re2.h#L444-L450

Many other languages / libraries provide escaping functions (I've
personally written QRegularExpression::escape(), targeting PCRE).

Perl itself provides quotemeta(), Python provides re.escape(), PHP has
preg_quote(), Ruby has Regexp.escape(), and so on. Notably, JS' proposal
for adding a regexp escape functionality was rejected, apparently citing
concerns regarding composition of escaped fragments:

> https://github.com/benjamingr/RegExp.escape/issues/37

My 2 c,

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