Regex Escape & Unescape
Easily escape special characters in a string to be used in a regular expression, or unescape them back to their literal form. A crucial tool for safe regex construction.
Text to Escape
Escaped for Regex
About the Regex Escape Tool
The Regex Escape & Unescape tool is a vital utility for any developer who works with regular expressions. When you need to find a literal string that contains special regex characters (like `.`, `*`, `+`, `?`, `$`), those characters must be "escaped" (usually with a backslash `\`) to tell the regex engine to treat them as literal characters, not as special operators. This tool automates that process, preventing bugs and saving you from manually escaping complex strings.
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