Escape special regex characters when matching routes

[aguingand]

I noticed routes with dots inside (e.g. {post}.{slug}) does not match using route().current(). Indeed RegEx special characters are currently not escaped, so I added a remplacement for :

.*+^$()|[]

I excluded {}? chars because there are needed for parameters.

[bakerkretzmar]

What is your replacement actually doing exactly? And what's your use case for this?

[bakerkretzmar]

Oh never mind I get it. Thanks! This makes sense, I'm gonna take a look at how Laravel handles routes like this because I'm fine erroring on characters that break the actual route. Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm pretty sure ^ and | aren't valid in URLs anyway unless they're encoded.

[aguingand]

Sorry I've rushed the description a little bit ! Yes the goal is to backlash these chars to be matched in the regex.
You're right ^ & | can be removed as there are encoded. Laravel seems to be ok with all these chars in a route.