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

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cloneRegExp	utility,regexp,intermediate

Clones a regular expression.

Use new RegExp(), RegExp.source and RegExp.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); // /lorem ipsum/gi