From 22e8d7b1a5123dc07c4342aad308bb62f58cfc81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stonio <stonio@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:06:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Shorter regex in escapeRegExChars

Removed unnecessary backslash characters.
Slash character is not a regex special character and does not need to be escaped.
---
 src/jquery.autocomplete.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jquery.autocomplete.js b/src/jquery.autocomplete.js
index 2fe14a9..d120248 100644
--- a/src/jquery.autocomplete.js
+++ b/src/jquery.autocomplete.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         utils = (function () {
             return {
                 escapeRegExChars: function (value) {
-                    return value.replace(/[\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\\\^\$\|]/g, "\\$&");
+                    return value.replace(/[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g, "\\$&");
                 },
                 createNode: function (containerClass) {
                     var div = document.createElement('div');