rspec/rules/S5856/javascript/rule.adoc

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To match a literal string, rather than a regular expression, either all special characters should be escaped or methods that don't use regular expressions should be used.

== Noncompliant Code Example

[source,javascript]
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new RegExp("([");
str.match("([");
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== Compliant Solution

[source,javascript]
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new RegExp("\\(\\[");
str.match("\\(\\[");
str.replace("([", "{");
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