Javascript RegExp object adding characters

Question

I have a regex string that is getting passed into to my code, when I try to inject it into the RegExp object constructor, the RegExp object appears to be adding characters.

original string regex:

    /^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$/

After calling new RegExp(mystring); results in the following:

regex:

    /\/^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$\//

I can't hardcode the string in my js file, so I need a way to make this work.

Avinash Raj · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15 17:20:01Z

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You don't need to add the regex delimiters. And you must need to escape the backslash one more time, because single backslash inside double quotes would be treated as an escape sequence.

var re = "^\\(?([0-9]{3})\\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$";
var reg = RegExp(re);

answered Jun 15, 2015 at 17:20

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Stradosphere Over a year ago

Thanks, I wasn't using double quotes, but the delimiters did the trick!

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