jQuery selector value escaping

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I use this function to escape jquery selectors. It escapes basically everything questionable but may be too aggressive. 

function escapeStr(str) 
{
    if (str)
        return str.replace(/([ #;?%&,.+*~\':"!^$[\]()=>|\/@])/g,'\\$1');      

    return str;
}

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