regexp with modifiers in pattern

Asked Sep 07 '15 at 20:22

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How to escape all special charactors (modifiers) in the pattern?

In this snippet of code the var input contains a modifier *.. How to escape all special characters in the input (pattern) variable?

var input = '*dog',
    regexp = new RegExp(input, 'ig'),
    str = 'a *dog and a cat';

if(str.search(regexp) >= 0){
    console.log('found!');
}
else{
    console.log('not found!');
}

http://jsfiddle.net/8511wfbk/1/

asked Sep 07 '15 at 20:22

clarkk

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Did you try to escape the special chars? var input = '\\\*dog' – Raxa Sep 07 '15 at 20:25
possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3115150/how-to-escape-regular-expression-special-characters-using-javascript – Moishe Lipsker Sep 07 '15 at 20:27

regexp with modifiers in pattern

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