Why do these 2 regular expressions not behave the same?

Question

I am attempting to create a regular expression with the constructor syntax like this new RegExp(\'\\bword\\b\', \'g\'), but it does not behave as expected. Rather i

Answer 1

For a string \b means backspace.

For a regex \b means word-boundary.

To make sure the regex version is used, add an extra backslash \ before each backslash in the string to escape the escape characters.