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Does storing regular expressions in a variable help?

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<script>var expression = /World/;</script>

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"Hello World!".replace(/World/, function () {
    return "JavaScript";
});

"Hello World!".replace(expression, function () {
    return "JavaScript";
});

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• Revision 1: published by Aadit M Shah on 9th January 2013
• Revision 2: published on 27th January 2013 and last updated on 6th March 2013
• Revision 9: published by Ian Nartowicz on 15th March 2013

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