JavaScript regex pattern concatenate with variable

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var re = new RegExp("/\b"+test+"\b/");

\b in a string literal is a backspace character. When putting a regex in a string literal you need one more round of escaping:

var re = new RegExp("\\b"+test+"\\b");

(You also don’t need the // in this context.)

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