Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 45: Incomplete string escaping or encoding

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Potential fix for https://github.com/alienx5499/SortVision/security/code-scanning/45

In general, when escaping characters for a specific output format (here, Markdown tables), you should escape the escape character itself (backslash) before escaping other metacharacters like |. This ensures that an existing backslash in the input cannot neutralize or otherwise interfere with the escaping you apply later.

The best minimal fix here is to update the construction of safeName and safeDetails so they escape backslashes first, then escape pipes. That avoids any change in intended content beyond making Markdown parsing more predictable, and keeps all other logic (slicing to 200 chars, etc.) unchanged. Concretely, in SortVision/tests/quality-assurance.mjs around lines 139–141, change:

const safeName = String(name).replace(/\|/g, '\\|');
const safeDetails = String(details || '').replace(/\|/g, '\\|').slice(0, 200);

to perform two replacements each: first \\ to \\\\, then | to \|. No new imports or helper functions are required; we can chain replace calls with regular expressions using the global g flag.

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Metric	Value
Total tests	517
Passed	517
Failed	0
Warnings	0
Pass rate	100.0%
Grade	S+
Duration	3.51s

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