<cfscript>

function escapeSpecialChars(required string term) {
	return reReplace(term, '([\[\]])', '\\\1', 'all');
}

function test(actual,expected) {
    writeDump({
        expected: expected,
        got: actual
    });
}


test(escapeSpecialChars("[]"), "\\[\\]");


</cfscript>