Regex Escaper

Why escape strings for Regex?

Regular expressions (regex) use certain characters to define rules, like . for "any character", * for "zero or more", or () for groups. If you want to search for these literal characters in a string (e.g., searching for a price like "$10.00"), you need to "escape" them by placing a backslash (\) before them, like this: \$10\.00.

This tool takes any literal string and automatically inserts backslashes before any regex control characters.

Characters Escaped

The following characters are considered special and are automatically escaped:
. * + ? ^ $ ( ) | [ ] \