Create regex from string javascript

Question

I have a question regarding creating a regex from a string. The code is in javascript, basically a variable gets a string. I am not sure how to convert the string to the regex. Here is the code

  var string = "the code";
  var regex = /(the |code )/g;

How can I convert my string to regex using javascript?

Answer 1

use RegExp:

var stringRe = "the code";
var re = new RegExp(stringRe, "g");