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I figured out how to incorporate a variable into a regular expression and thought I'd share the joy:

It's a two-step process of first building a string that includes the variable and then constructing a RegExp from that string with any flags that are needed. For example, I need to search globally for figure callouts (such as Figure 12.1 or figure 2-3) where the first number is the same as the current chapter number, which is in the variable myChapNum:

myRegExpString = "[fF]igure " + myChapNum + "[.-][0-9]+";
myRegExp = new RegExp(myRegExpString, "g");

So that if myChapNum holds the number 2 then my RegExp becomes

/[fF]igure 2[.-][0-9]+/g

It works!

-- Sue