JavaScript - Use variable in string match

I found several similar questions, but it did not help me. So I have this problem:

var xxx = "victoria";
var yyy = "i";
alert(xxx.match(yyy/g).length);

I don't know how to pass variable in match command. Please help. Thank you.

Although the match function doesn't accept string literals as regex patterns, you can use the constructor of the RegExp object and pass that to the String.match function:

var re = new RegExp(yyy, 'g');
xxx.match(re);

Any flags you need (such as /g) can go into the second parameter.

You have to use RegExp object if your pattern is string

var xxx = "victoria";
var yyy = "i";
var rgxp = new RegExp(yyy, "g");
alert(xxx.match(rgxp).length);

If pattern is not dynamic string:

var xxx = "victoria";
var yyy = /i/g;
alert(xxx.match(yyy).length);

For example:

let myString = "Hello World"
let myMatch = myString.match(/H.*/)
console.log(myMatch)

Or

let myString = "Hello World"
let myVariable = "H"
let myReg = new RegExp(myVariable + ".*")
let myMatch = myString.match(myReg)
console.log(myMatch)

Example. To find number of vowels within the string

var word='Web Development Tutorial';
var vowels='[aeiou]'; 
var re = new RegExp(vowels, 'gi');
var arr = word.match(re);
document.write(arr.length);

for me anyways, it helps to see it used. just made this using the "re" example:

var analyte_data = 'sample-'+sample_id;
var storage_keys = $.jStorage.index();
var re = new RegExp( analyte_data,'g');  
for(i=0;i<storage_keys.length;i++) { 
    if(storage_keys[i].match(re)) {
        console.log(storage_keys[i]);
        var partnum = storage_keys[i].split('-')[2];
    }
}

xxx.match(yyy, 'g').length