Special characters

[yourilefers]

When the password contains generated special characters (like '('), it crashed. We had to implemented something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446170/escape-string-for-use-in-javascript-regex

on line 133 of the 0.2 version. I have no idea wether this has been fixed in 0.3, because bower could not fetch that version. That version has also not yet been 'compiled' (minified).

[Bitblade]

Be warned, the 0.2 version contains a lot of gotcha's. For instance, the progressbar is blue instead of red for weak passwords because the wrong classes are used. (Line 183/184, the error is obvious when comparing to the lines below) It also tends to ignore a lot of special characters because it uses a regex with a very limited subset of special characters. I believe I fixed that by using regexes like /\W|_/g

After some difficulty with (very) outdated dependencies, I just managed to get the 0.3 version working, which still contains the escape issue.

[Yongshuai-Liu]

To fix special char bug:
1 . Add this function.
function escapeRegExp(str) {
return str.replace(/[-[]/{}()*+?.^$|]/g, "$&");
}
2. Update line 133 to var _reg = new RegExp(escapeRegExp(_p[i]), 'g');

To fix the blue color bar bug:

1. Update line 183/184 to
   outter: scope.outterClassPrefix + 'danger',
   inner: scope.innerClassPrefix + 'danger'

Cheers.

[BenWoodford]

I found @YoshiDatoutou's solution wasn't working for me, I suspect it's GitHub messing with the formatting though:

.replace(/[\\\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\^\$\|]/g, "\$&")

was the line I had to use.