regex_escape: support POSIX basic regex (#50327)

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James Cassell
2019-03-07 08:51:19 -05:00
committed by Sam Doran
parent 874fd70d10
commit e55e8fe2c4
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regex_escape - added re_type option to enable escaping POSIX BRE chars
This distinction is necessary because escaping non-special chars such as
'(' or '{' turns them into special chars, the opposite of what is intended
by using regex_escape on strings being passed as a Basic Regular
Expression.