@cloudinary/url-gen/backwards/utils/smartEscape.js

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// Based on CGI::unescape. In addition does not escape / :
// smart_escape = (string)->
//  encodeURIComponent(string).replace(/%3A/g, ":").replace(/%2F/g, "/")
export function smartEscape(string, unsafe = /([^a-zA-Z0-9_.\-\/:]+)/g) {
    return string.replace(unsafe, function (match) {
        return match.split("").map(function (c) {
            return "%" + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperCase();
        }).join("");
    });
}