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Escape search terms before passing to Regexp

username-removed-14714 requested to merge winniehell/gitlab-ce:search-helper-escape-regexp into master

What does this MR do?

Use Regexp.escape to escape the search terms before passing them to Regexp.new.

Why was this MR needed?

  • evaluated regular expressions in search terms lead to unexpected result
  • unbalanced parentheses in search term lead to server error

What are the relevant issue numbers?

fixes #14360 (closed)

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