[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison.LIKE doesn't filter special characters!

[Matt Priour]

LIKE creates a regex from the string. So if you have characters with 
special regex meaning, then you need to escape them.

See 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions#Using_Special_Characters 
for the special characters

Matt Priour

On 1/2/2013 10:22 AM, Diego M. wrote:
> it seems like OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison.LIKE doesn't filter special
> characters!
> for example,
>
> filter = new OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison({
>      type: OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison.LIKE,
>      property: 'name',
> 	value: 'blue'
>      })
>
> this will work fine. but:
>
> filter = new OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison({
>      type: OpenLayers.Filter.Comparison.LIKE,
>      property: 'name',
> 	value: 'light-blue'
>      })
>
> this will cause an error because of the -
> it also can't deal with dots
>
> what can I do to fix that ?
>
>
>
>
>
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