Make a string a literal regex in ruby

Question

I have an unknown input string, and I want to use it as a regex, but it can have many characters such as (,/,\

In Ruby, Is it possible to specify that the input argument to match is just a literal string.

e.g text.match_literal(string) instead of text.match(string) ?

Or, is the only way to do this by writing a function to backslash the problems?

Thankyou,

Answer 1

You can use index method:

text.index(string)