/**
 * lodash 4.1.1 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2016 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.8.3 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2016 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */
var toString = require('lodash.tostring');

/**
 * Used to match `RegExp`
 * [syntax characters](http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-patterns).
 */
var reRegExpChar = /[\\^$.*+?()[\]{}|]/g,
    reHasRegExpChar = RegExp(reRegExpChar.source);

/**
 * Escapes the `RegExp` special characters "^", "$", "\", ".", "*", "+",
 * "?", "(", ")", "[", "]", "{", "}", and "|" in `string`.
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @since 3.0.0
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape.
 * @returns {string} Returns the escaped string.
 * @example
 *
 * _.escapeRegExp('[lodash](https://lodash.com/)');
 * // => '\[lodash\]\(https://lodash\.com/\)'
 */
function escapeRegExp(string) {
  string = toString(string);
  return (string && reHasRegExpChar.test(string))
    ? string.replace(reRegExpChar, '\\$&')
    : string;
}

module.exports = escapeRegExp;