javascript regular expressions with variable content

I have a working reg expression that does a replace function based on the expression. It works perfect. It finds a specific string ba开发者_JS百科sed on the beginning of the string and the expression. This is it:

str.replace(/\bevent[0-9]*\=/, "event");

what this does is it changes event=1 to event.

What if event was a variable word? What if I needed to look for conference also?

I have tried:

var type = "conference";

str.replace(/\b/ + type+ /[0-9]*\=/, "conference");

and:

str.replace(/\b/type/[0-9]*\=/, "conference");

neither worked.

how can I pass a javascript string into a regular expression?

Instead of writing a RegEx literal, use a string to create a new RegExp object:

str.replace(new RegExp('\b' + var + '[0-9]'), …)

You can do that with the RegExp Object:

str.replace(RegExp('\b' + reStr + '[0-9]*\='),StrToReplaceWith)

Create a new regex object with your variable.

read this...

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_regexp.asp