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Pattern with regex not working as expected #667

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@AnyaHunt

I have really liked using knockout-validation. I think it works well. I've just come across one small thing (that has been verified by someone else). I have a knockout observable (string) with the following validation extend definition

pattern: {
     message: this.gui.validationCannotInclude,
     params: '^[^\/\\\^\$\.\|\?\*\+\(\)\"\']+$'
}

It works fine detecting all of the escaped characters, except \ - it even catches /. I've checked the regex in https://www.regextester.com/ and it seems correct. Attempted rewriting the regex to put the backslash elsewhere in the definition, but it doesn't help.

The complete definition on this observable is:

ko.observable(this.Name).extend({
required: {
    message: this.gui.validationRequired
},
maxLength: {
    params: 50,
    message: this.gui.validationLongerThan50
},
pattern: {
   message: this.gui.validationCannotInclude,
   params: '^[^\/\\\^\$\.\|\?\*\+\(\)\"\']+$'
}

Thank you.

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