I have the following regex:
var re = /ABCD-\w{3}/
It works as is, but when I use a variable like this:
var myvar = "ABCD" + "-\w\\{3}\\}"
var re = nev RegExp(myvar, "g")
It doesn't work.
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`var re = /ABCD-\w{3}/` = `new RegExp("ABCD-\\w{3}")`. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jul 21 '17 at 14:37
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Have you tried `var myvar = 'ABCD' + '-\w{3}'` ? When you already have a variable which is used in a regex constructor, it doesn't matter. It only matters about the string parsing rules of the language, has nothing to do with regex at all .. – Jul 21 '17 at 14:52
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I tried that: var myvar = 'ABCD' + '-\w{3}' but it didn't either. – Alex Jul 21 '17 at 17:34