Escaping for regexp?

Ruby
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i’ve a regexp like that :

/.*#{name}$/ === path

however the variable “name” could, for example, in the form of :

“L2 Cache (per CPU)”

then, the string “name” might contain reserved chars for regexp,

i plan to escape them replacing “(” by “\(” etc…

however i wonder if such a function for escaping reserved chars does
exists buit-in ???

notice i don’t want to escape “.*” because i plan to use the wild card.

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Une bévue wrote:

i plan to escape them replacing “(” by “\(” etc…

however i wonder if such a function for escaping reserved chars does
exists buit-in ???

Regexp.escape(name)

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Paul L. [email protected] wrote:

Regexp.escape(name)

fine thanxs !!!