How to put variable in regular expression match?

Question

I have

var string1 = \'asdgghjajakhakhdsadsafdgawerwweadf\';
var string2 = \'a\';
string1.match(\"\\/\"+string2+\"\\/g\").length;

So with t

Answer 1

You need to use the RegExp constructor instead of a regex literal.

var string = 'asdgghjjkhkh';
var string2 = 'a';
var regex = new RegExp( string2, 'g' );
string.match(regex);

If you didn't need the global modifier, then you could just pass string2, and .match() will create the regex for you.

string.match( string2 );