sanitize string before used in regex to prevent crash (#2219)

2025-02-20 18:30:54 +11:00
parent d8d4bce287
commit 9fe67da98b
4 changed files with 13 additions and 5 deletions
--- a/src/app/utils/regex.ts
+++ b/src/app/utils/regex.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+/**
+ * https://www.npmjs.com/package/escape-string-regexp
+ */
+export const sanitizeForRegex = (unsafeText: string): string =>
+  unsafeText.replace(/[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g, '\\$&').replace(/-/g, '\\x2d');
+
 export const HTTP_URL_PATTERN = `https?:\\/\\/(?:www\\.)?(?:[^\\s)]*)(?<![.,:;!/?()[\\]\\s]+)`;

 export const URL_REG = new RegExp(HTTP_URL_PATTERN, 'g');