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TypeScript
/**
* Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', and "'" in `string` to their
* corresponding HTML entities.
*
* **Note:** No other characters are escaped. To escape additional
* characters use a third-party library like [_he_](https://mths.be/he).
*
* Though the ">" character is escaped for symmetry, characters like
* ">" and "/" don't need escaping in HTML and have no special meaning
* unless they're part of a tag or unquoted attribute value. See
* [Mathias Bynens's article](https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands)
* (under "semi-related fun fact") for more details.
*
* When working with HTML you should always
* [quote attribute values](http://wonko.com/post/html-escaping) to reduce
* XSS vectors.
*
* @since 5.12.0
* @category String
* @param string The string to escape.
* @returns Returns the escaped string.
* @see [[escapeRegExp]], [[unescape]]
* @example
*
* ```js
* escape('fred, barney, & pebbles')
* // => 'fred, barney, & pebbles'
* ```
*/
export declare function escape(string: string): string;
export default escape;