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var baseToString = require('../internal/baseToString'),
escapeHtmlChar = require('../internal/escapeHtmlChar');
/** Used to match HTML entities and HTML characters. */
var reUnescapedHtml = /[&<>"'`]/g,
reHasUnescapedHtml = RegExp(reUnescapedHtml.source);
/**
* Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and "\`", in `string` to
* their corresponding HTML entities.
*
* **Note:** No other characters are escaped. To escape additional characters
* use a third-party library like [_he_](https://mths.be/he).
*
* Though the ">" character is escaped for symmetry, characters like
* ">" and "/" don't need escaping in HTML and have no special meaning
* unless they're part of a tag or unquoted attribute value.
* See [Mathias Bynens's article](https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands)
* (under "semi-related fun fact") for more details.
*
* Backticks are escaped because in Internet Explorer < 9, they can break out
* of attribute values or HTML comments. See [#59](https://html5sec.org/#59),
* [#102](https://html5sec.org/#102), [#108](https://html5sec.org/#108), and
* [#133](https://html5sec.org/#133) of the [HTML5 Security Cheatsheet](https://html5sec.org/)
* for more details.
*
* When working with HTML you should always [quote attribute values](http://wonko.com/post/html-escaping)
* to reduce XSS vectors.
*
* @static
* @memberOf _
* @category String
* @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape.
* @returns {string} Returns the escaped string.
* @example
*
* _.escape('fred, barney, & pebbles');
* // => 'fred, barney, &amp; pebbles'
*/
function escape(string) {
// Reset `lastIndex` because in IE < 9 `String#replace` does not.
string = baseToString(string);
return (string && reHasUnescapedHtml.test(string))
? string.replace(reUnescapedHtml, escapeHtmlChar)
: string;
}
module.exports = escape;