30-seconds-of-code/snippets/cloneRegExp.md

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title	tags	expertise	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Clone RegExp	type	intermediate	2018-01-01T19:45:47+02:00	2020-10-22T20:23:47+03:00

Clones a regular expression.

• Use the RegExp constructor, RegExp.prototype.source and RegExp.prototype.flags to clone the given regular expression.

const cloneRegExp = regExp => new RegExp(regExp.source, regExp.flags);

const regExp = /lorem ipsum/gi;
const regExp2 = cloneRegExp(regExp); // regExp !== regExp2