Index: /trunk/cgi-bin/search.cgi
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--- /trunk/cgi-bin/search.cgi	(revision 952)
+++ /trunk/cgi-bin/search.cgi	(revision 953)
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 ##
 # $Id$
-# Copyright 2005-2010,2012,2015-2017,2022 - Kris Deugau <kdeugau@deepnet.cx>
+# Copyright 2005-2010,2012,2015-2017,2022,2024 - Kris Deugau <kdeugau@deepnet.cx>
 #
 #    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -414,4 +414,6 @@
 
     print qq(<div class="heading">Searching for description, customer ID, or circuit ID matching '$query'</div><br>\n);
+##fixme:  suppress regex handling of ()[]
+$query =~ s/([()\[\]])/\\$1/g;
     # Query based on description (includes "name" from old DB).
     $sql = "$sqlbase WHERE s.description ~* ? OR s.custid ~* ? OR s.circuitid ~* ?";