How can I concatenate regex literals in JavaScript?

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Here is how to create a regular expression without using the regular expression literal syntax. This lets you do arbitary string manipulation before it becomes a regular expression object:

var segment_part = "some bit of the regexp";
var pattern = new RegExp("some regex segment" + /*comment here */
              segment_part + /* that was defined just now */
              "another segment");

If you have two regular expression literals, you can in fact concatenate them using this technique:

var regex1 = /foo/g;
var regex2 = /bar/y;
var flags = (regex1.flags + regex2.flags).split("").sort().join("").replace(/(.)(?=.*\1)/g, "");
var regex3 = new RegExp(expression_one.source + expression_two.source, flags);
// regex3 is now /foobar/gy

It’s just more wordy than just having expression one and two being literal strings instead of literal regular expressions.

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