Helper function to escape text #16

IlyaSemenov · 2021-09-01T10:49:50Z

Imagine I have this template:

const doc = `
Item | Qty | Amount
${item} | ${qty} | ${amount}
`

Now what if item has | or any other special symbol inside? The whole document is broken.

I imagined there would be a helper function like receiptline.escape(mytext) but there isn't one.

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IlyaSemenov · 2021-09-01T11:25:22Z

Something like:

export function escape(text: string) {
	return text.replaceAll(/[\\|{}\-=~_"`^]/g, "\\$&")
}

receiptline · 2021-09-03T03:44:48Z

Thanks. It worked correctly.
Only one line, good!

I think some users might want to escape only some of the special characters.

It might be better to handle it in the user's program.
Then your code will be helpful for everyone.

IlyaSemenov changed the title ~~Help to escape text~~ Helper function to escape text Sep 1, 2021

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