Name
RegExp.toString() — convert a regular expression to a string
Inherits from
Overrides Object.toString()
Synopsis
regexp
.
toString
()
Returns
A string representation of
regexp
.
Throws
- TypeError
If this method is invoked on an object that is not a RegExp.
Description
The RegExp.toString()
method returns a string representation of a regular expression in
the form of a regular-expression literal.
Note that implementations are not required to add escape
sequences to ensure that the returned string is a legal
regular-expression literal. Consider the regular expression created
by the expression new
RegExp("/","g")
. An implementation of RegExp.toString()
could return ///g
for this regular expression; it could
also add an escape sequence and return /\//g
.
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