sanitize_lua
🔗NAME
sanitize_lua
🔗SYNOPSIS
escape lua ‘magic’ characters from a pattern string
🔗USAGE
local ds = require "lib/dtutils.string"
local result = ds.sanitize_lua(str)
str - string - the string that needs to be made safe
🔗DESCRIPTION
sanitize_lua escapes lua ‘magic’ characters so that a string may be used in lua string/patten matching.
🔗RETURN VALUE
result - string - a lua pattern safe string