GLib.Regex.escape_string
function escape_string(string: Array(String)): String { // Gjs wrapper for g_regex_escape_string() }
Escapes the special characters used for regular expressions in string, for instance "a.b*c" becomes "a\.b\*c". This function is useful to dynamically generate regular expressions.
string can contain nul characters that are replaced with "\0", in this case remember to specify the correct length of string in length.
Since 2.14
- string
the string to escape
- Returns
a newly-allocated escaped string