Added function to escape regex characters

client/src/utility/escapeRegex.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/**
+ * https://stackoverflow.com/a/30851002/16957052
+ */
+export const escapeRegex = (exp: string) => {
+  return exp.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+!<=:?.\/\\^$|#\s,]/g, '\\$&');
+};

client/src/utility/index.ts

@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ export * from './validators';
 export * from './parseTime';
 export * from './decodeToken';
 export * from './applyAuth';
+export * from './escapeRegex';