Removing single quation mark, javascript

Question

I need to remove single quotation marks from

var test = '\/'+val.text+'\/i';

in order to do a mongodb search like db.document.find({field:test}) That is, If val.text is 'hello', the find should be

db.document.find({field:/hello/i})

and not

db.document.find({field:'/hello/i'})

which wont find any field with the substring 'hello' How do I do that without using eval(test) ?

Can you rewrite your question? It is hard to understand what do you need — Salvador Dali, Nov 11 '13 at 08:16
duplicate:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/874709/converting-user-input-string-to-regular-expression — forsvunnet, Nov 11 '13 at 08:17
duplicate, more or less : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725708/node-js-and-mongoose-regex-query-on-multiple-fields — Silviu Burcea, Nov 11 '13 at 08:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 08:19

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// This should do it:
var test = new RegExp(val.text, "i");

answered Nov 11 '13 at 08:19

forsvunnet

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 08:17

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val.text.replace("'", "");

Should do what you want.

answered Nov 11 '13 at 08:17

Willem Mulder

Ah, I now understand what you want. You want to build a Regexp literal, and not a String. Forsvunnets answer should do what you want! – Willem Mulder Nov 11 '13 at 08:57

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