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DEVELOPER BENCH
Prepend a backslash to common regex metacharacters in the supplied text so it can be embedded as a literal substring inside a larger regular expression.
WHAT THIS DOES
Runs entirely in your browser.
/tools/regex-escaperegex-escapev10.0.0LOCAL · LOCAL RUNIMPLEMENTED — This workbench is functional in the current release.Presets for this workbench
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BATCH / ONE VALUE PER LINE
Up to 200 lines, one at a time, in this browser. Each line takes the place of text and everything else stays as you set it. Nothing is uploaded, and the row limit is not exceeded silently.
METHOD / LOCAL RUN
A pure-TypeScript replacement adds a backslash before each metacharacter in the supported set.
Boundary: Returns a string suitable for constructing a RegExp.
The calculation or transformation runs in your browser using the values entered above. No input is sent to UtilityForge for this tool.
EXAMPLES / LOCAL RUN FIXTURES
FAQ
Returns a string suitable for constructing a RegExp.
No. This published tool runs locally in your browser. UtilityForge does not send the values entered in this workbench to a server.
No. This workbench runs in the page: Text to escape are read by the code your browser already downloaded, and UtilityForge receives neither the values nor the result.
Yes, and it is enforced rather than advertised: Text to escape (100,000 characters). The limit is a browser input limit on a tool that runs on this device, so nothing is truncated after being sent anywhere.
RELATED TOOLS
LOCAL — Runs entirely in your browser.
COMMON USE CASES / SOURCE NOTE
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Source information: Pure-TypeScript character escaping; no regular expression is compiled, executed, or sent to a service.