From 7f444e3275361651eb5e0b89f09fd3afd8113e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Paul=20H=C3=A4nsch?= <paul@plutz.net>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 12:11:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] new function RXLITERAL() for escaping regex characters

---
 storage.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/storage.sh b/storage.sh
index 17ea0d0..5c61df0 100755
--- a/storage.sh
+++ b/storage.sh
@@ -94,6 +94,21 @@ UNSTRING(){
   printf '%s\n' "$out"
 }
 
+RXLITERAL(){
+  # sed -E 's;[].*+?^${}()|\[];\\&;g'
+  local in out=''
+  [ $# -gt 0 ] && in="$*" || in="$(cat)"
+  while [ "$in" ]; do case $in in
+    [.+^\$\{\}\(\)\[\]\*\?\|\\]*)
+      out="${out}\\${in%"${in#?}"}"; in="${in#?}";
+      ;;
+    *)out="${out}${in%%[.+^\$\{\}\(\)\[\]\*\?\|\\]*}"
+      in="${in#"${in%%[.+^\$\{\}\(\)\[\]\*\?\|\\]*}"}"
+      ;;
+  esac; done
+  printf '%s\n' "$out"
+}
+
 DBM() {
   local file="$1" cmd="$2"
   local k v key value
-- 
2.39.2