md-autocomplete - problem characters

[christianirack]

In the tutorial page:

The console displays an error when you try to insert any of the following characters...

filter(val: string): string[] {
return this.options.filter(option => new RegExp(^${val}, 'gi').test(option));
}

(, [, ...

[christianirack]

A solution may be:

val = val.replace(/[-[]/{}()*+?.\^$|]/g, "\$&");
return this.options.filter(option => new RegExp(^${val}, 'gi').test(option));

[willshowell]

Luckily there's a PR at angular/components#5787 to replace the autocomplete code snippets with live examples. One of the changes is to use indexOf(val) === 0) instead of the regex

[josephperrott]

Resolved via angular/components#5787