== Why is this an issue?

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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

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new RegExp("([");
str.match("([");
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=== Compliant solution

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