Combining regular expressions in Javascript

Question

Is it possible to combine regular expressions in javascript.

For ex:

 var lower = /[a-z]/;
 var upper = /[A-Z]/;
 var alpha = upper|lower;//Is this          


        

Answer 1

If regexps are not known beforehand,

var one = /[a-z]/;
var two = /[A-Z]/;

var one_or_two = new RegExp("(" + one.source + ")|(" + two.source + ")")