@omneedia/socketcluster/sample/node_modules/escape-string-regexp/index.js

SocketCluster - A Highly parallelized WebSocket server cluster to make the most of multi-core machines/instances.

'use strict';

var matchOperatorsRe = /[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g;

module.exports = function (str) {
	if (typeof str !== 'string') {
		throw new TypeError('Expected a string');
	}

	return str.replace(matchOperatorsRe, '\\$&');
};