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June 7, 2012 23:43
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A quickie to escape metacharacters in strings for use in jQuery selectors
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| def jqe(str) | |
| str.gsub( /[!"\#$%&'()*+,.\/:\\;<=>?@\[\]^`{|}~]/, '\\\\\\\\\&') | |
| end |
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to make this nil-safe, call .to_s on str first.