From 758cbafbd9f5b2b37dd81f8d0a5408b5b54949fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Melville <joshua.melville@northwestern.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:49:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix code scanning alert no. 1: Incomplete string escaping or
 encoding

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/validation/Validator.ts | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/validation/Validator.ts b/src/validation/Validator.ts
index 006a367..f3ee629 100644
--- a/src/validation/Validator.ts
+++ b/src/validation/Validator.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { ValidationError } from "..";
 const ensurePatternRegExp = (pattern: string | RegExp): RegExp => {
   if (typeof pattern === "string") {
     const re = pattern
+      .replace(/\\/g, "\\\\")
       .replace(/\./g, "\\.")
       .replace(/\*/g, "[^.]+")
       .replace(/\[\]/g, ".?\\[\\d+\\]");