3.3. Escaping Special Characters
The class method Regexp.escape escapes any characters that are special characters used in regular expressions. Such characters include the asterisk, question mark, and brackets.
str1 = "[*?]" str2 = Regexp.escape(str1) # "\[\*\?\]"
The method Regexp.quote is an alias.
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