Shouldn't this RegExp work?

Question

testString = \"something://something/task?type=Checkin\";

patt = new RegExp(\"something\\/(\\w*)\\?\");
match = patt.exec(testString);
document.querySelector(\'#resultR         


        

Answer 1

You would need to escape the slash in regex literals, and the backslash in string literals which you create regexes from:

var patt = /something\/(\w*)\?/g;
// or
var patt = new RegExp("something/(\\w*)\\?", 'g');

I strongly recommend the first version, it is more readable.