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Mark TC39 regex escaping proposal as reopened #15765

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Expand Up @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ function escapeRegExp(string) {
The "g" after the regular expression is an option or flag that performs a global search, looking in the whole string and returning all matches.
It is explained in detail below in [Advanced Searching With Flags](#advanced_searching_with_flags).

_Why isn't this built into JavaScript?_ There is a proposal to add such a function to RegExp, but it was [rejected by TC39.](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regex-escaping/issues/37)
_Why isn't this built into JavaScript?_ There is a [proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regex-escaping) to add such a function to RegExp.

### Using parentheses

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