From 8dd8345d1498b8c6a3c6d7f7f4ebc600cfd2195b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Ibershoff <joe@ibershoff.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:48:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] handle regex special characters

---
 debug.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debug.js b/debug.js
index a21c0930..b475edcf 100644
--- a/debug.js
+++ b/debug.js
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ function enable(namespaces) {
 
   for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
     if (!split[i]) continue; // ignore empty strings
-    namespaces = split[i].replace(/\*/g, '.*?');
+    namespaces = split[i].replace(/[\\^$+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&').replace(/\*/g, '.*?');
     if (namespaces[0] === '-') {
       exports.skips.push(new RegExp('^' + namespaces.substr(1) + '$'));
     } else {