- Is the Regex Escape tool free to use?
- Yes, the Regex Escape tool is completely free with no limitations. Escape as much text as you need for use in regular expressions without any registration or restrictions.
- Is my data private?
- Yes, all regex escaping happens locally in your browser. Your patterns and text are never sent to any server, making it safe to work with sensitive search patterns.
- What does regex escaping do?
- Regex escaping adds backslashes before special regex characters like . * + ? ^ $ { } [ ] \ | ( ). This converts literal text into a pattern that matches that exact text, rather than being interpreted as regex operators.
- When do I need to escape for regex?
- Escape text when you want to match special characters literally, building regex patterns from user input, searching for text that contains regex metacharacters, or creating patterns that include punctuation like periods or brackets.
- Which regex flavor does this support?
- The tool escapes characters for JavaScript/ECMAScript regular expressions, which is compatible with most modern regex implementations. The escaped output works safely in JavaScript, Python, Java, and most other regex engines.