You construct a regular expression by putting the various components of the expression pattern between a pair of delimiters. For JScript, the delimiters are a pair of forward slash (/) characters. For example:

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/expression/

For VBScript, a pair of quotation marks ("") delimit regular expressions. For example:

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"expression"

In both of the examples shown above, the regular expression pattern (expression) is stored in the Pattern property of the RegExp object.

The components of a regular expression can be individual characters, sets of characters, ranges of characters, choices between characters, or any combination of all of these components.