From 848bbb5b80db8e06f565d6ac54ce4c185aa3da0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Cambier <simon.cambier@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:46:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed regex crash when looking for `"foo - bar"`

---
 src/tools/utils.ts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/utils.ts b/src/tools/utils.ts
index b6aa32a..90e7ca9 100644
--- a/src/tools/utils.ts
+++ b/src/tools/utils.ts
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ export function wait(ms: number): Promise<void> {
 }
 
 // https://stackoverflow.com/a/3561711
+// but we enclose special chars in brackets to avoid them being interpreted as regex
 export function escapeRegex(str: string): string {
-  return str.replace(/[-/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&')
+  return str.replace(/[-/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '[$&]')
 }
 
 /**