Does javascript have literal strings?

Question

In c# and ruby and many other languages you can denote a string as to not need escaping.
in c# its like this

Answer 1

I know it is six years late now, but I've got one solution to this ;)

function literalString(regex) {
    return ('' + regex).slice(1, -1);
};

O.innerHTML = literalString(/\whatever\this\is/);

You basically convert a regex to string and removes the first and last characters.