Issue 5325 - Add support for separator characters

lib/abp2blocklist.js

Index: lib/abp2blocklist.js
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--- a/lib/abp2blocklist.js
+++ b/lib/abp2blocklist.js
@@ -165,18 +165,36 @@
 
     switch (c)
     {
       case "*":
         if (regexp.length > 0 && i < lastIndex && characters[i + 1] != "*")
           regexp.push(".*");
         break;
       case "^":
-        if (i < lastIndex)
-          regexp.push(".");
+        let alphabet = "a-z";
+        // If justHostname is true and we've encountered a "^", it means we're
+        // still in the hostname part of the URL. Since hostnames are always
+        // lower case (Punycode), there's no need to include "A-Z" in the
+        // pattern. Further, subsequent code may lower-case the entire regular
+        // expression (if the URL contains only the hostname part), leaving us
+        // with "a-za-z", which would be redundant.
+        if (!justHostname)
+          alphabet = "A-Z" + alphabet;
+        let digits = "0-9";
+        // Note that the "-" must appear first here in order to retain its
+        // literal meaning within the brackets.
+        let specialCharacters = "-_.%";
+        let separator = "[^" + specialCharacters + alphabet + digits + "]";
+        if (i == 0)
+          regexp.push("^https?://(.*" + separator + ")?");
+        else if (i == lastIndex)
+          regexp.push("(" + separator + ".*)?$");
+        else
+          regexp.push(separator);
         break;
       case "|":
         if (i == 0)
         {
           regexp.push("^");
           break;
         }
         if (i == lastIndex)