Which characters need to be escaped in regex?

[tom saffell]

JSHint gives me this error in my JS:

Unexpected escaped character '<' in regular expression.

So I removed the preceding \, and the error went away - great.

Can someone point me to the definitive list of characters that need to be escaped in JS regex?

There is this question on StackOverflow, but it contradicts the rule of the '<', and seem to be influenced by PHP.

Also, seems the JSHint doesnt mind the '>' being escaped, which makes me want that list even more..

I'm using grunt-contrib-jshint v0.1.1 

thanks

tom

[Wolfgang Kluge]

Hi,
complete list for literals - as far as I know - is

1. Outside [ ]
[ ] { } \ / | . ? + *

2. Inside [ ]
[ ] \ / - ^

it's not always needed to escape "-" inside brackets, but it's safer ( think of e.g. [a-c-e] which is the same as [abc\-e]). ^ has to be escaped only if it's at the beginning of the set.

Greetings, Wolfgang

[tom saffell]

Thanks Wolfgang. I'll use that.

tom