Why escape strings before building a RegExp?

Characters like . ? + and $ have special regex meanings unless preceded by a backslash.

Which characters are escaped?

All standard PCRE and ECMAScript regex metacharacters are escaped.

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Escape regex metacharacters (., *, +, ?, ^, $, {, }, (, ), |, [, ], \) for literal matching in JavaScript, Python, or Go.

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