[Help-smalltalk] [bug] String>>escapeRegex fails on Strings including an asterisk

[Tim Felgentreff]

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Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    STInST
Category:     bug reports
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  timfelgentreff
Updated by:   timfelgentreff
Status:       active

gst-convert fails with "Invalid index 1: index out of range" when trying
to convert methods have a '*' in their category to squeak. The reason is
that since b44ebba00d36fe7a3d112811f4617f5630ee55f4 escapeRegex is
called on the methodCategory.

As 'escapeRegex' should simply put backslashes in Front of regex
characters, why not use a simple

String>>escapeRegex [
   ^ '[][?*+\\()^$|]' 
      inject: self 
      into: [:str :char | 
         str 
            copyReplaceAll: char asString 
            with: '\', char asString].
]

instead of the call to "copyFrom:to:replacingAllRegex:with:"? Wouldn't
that solve the problem?