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2025

1 features
• May 2025

The RegExp.escape() static method takes a string and replaces any characters that are potentially special characters of a regular expression with equivalent escape sequences. For example, RegExp.escape("[abc]") returns "\\[abc\\]".

Chrome 136
Firefox 134
Safari 18.2
Edge 136
Baseline Date: May 1, 2025

2015

1 features
• July 2015

The RegExp object represents a regular expression, a notation for matching text patterns.

Chrome 1
Firefox 1
Safari 1
Edge 12
Baseline Date: Jul 29, 2015

Limited Availability

2 features
• In Progress / Not Yet Baseline

The compile() method of RegExp objects recompiles an existing regular expression object using a new pattern and flags.

Chrome 1
Firefox 1
Safari 3.1
Edge 12
Status: Incomplete cross-engine support

The RegExp object has several static properties to access the input and results of the most-recent regular expression match.

Chrome 1
Firefox 1
Safari 3
Edge 12
Status: Incomplete cross-engine support