How To Escape Special Characters In Regular Expressions

For my website I use the dataTable plugin and to give the user the possibility to filter the results. I implemented some filter, which are dynamically loaded from the results and c

Solution 1:

SOLUTION

You can add and use a function escapeRegExp() that will escape special characters as found in MDN - Regular Expressions article:

function escapeRegExp(string){
  return string.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&");
}

// ... skipped ...

table.column('myColumn:name').search(escapeRegExp(searchString), true, false, true).draw();

DEMO

See this jsFiddle for code and demonstration.