Match dynamic string using regex

Question

I\'m trying to detect an occurrence of a string within string. But the code below always returns \"null\". Obviously something went wrong, but since I\'m a newbie, I can\'t

Answer 1

Please don't put '/' when you pass string in RegExp option

Following would be fine

var strRegExPattern = '\\b'+searchStr+'\\b'; 
"32:width: 900px;".match(new RegExp(strRegExPattern,'g'));