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var toString = require('./toString');

/**
 * Used to match `RegExp`
 * [syntax characters](http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/#sec-patterns).
 */
var reRegExpChar = /[\\^$.*+?()[\]{}|]/g,
    reHasRegExpChar = RegExp(reRegExpChar.source);

/**
 * Escapes the `RegExp` special characters "^", "$", "\", ".", "*", "+",
 * "?", "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and "|" in `string`.
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @since 3.0.0
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape.
 * @returns {string} Returns the escaped string.
 * @example
 *
 * _.escapeRegExp('[lodash](https://lodash.com/)');
 * // => '\[lodash\]\(https://lodash\.com/\)'
 */
function escapeRegExp(string) {
  string = toString(string);
  return (string && reHasRegExpChar.test(string))
    ? string.replace(reRegExpChar, '\\$&')
    : string;
}

module.exports = escapeRegExp;