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 Triple-quoted regex strings, of the form `r"""..."""`, are also supported (and may be convenient
 for regular expressions containing quotation marks or newlines).
 
+The `Regex()` constructor may be used to create a valid regex string programmatically.  This permits using the contents of string variables and other string operations when constructing the regex string. Any of the regex codes above can be used within the single string argument to `Regex()`. Here are some examples:
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> using Dates
+
+julia> d = Date(1962,7,10)
+1962-07-10
+
+julia> regex_d = Regex("Day " * string(day(d)))
+r"Day 10"
+
+julia> match(regex_d, "It happened on Day 10")
+RegexMatch("Day 10")
+
+julia> name = "Jon"
+"Jon"
+
+julia> regex_name = Regex("[\"( ]$name[\") ]")  # interpolate value of name
+r"[\"( ]Jon[\") ]"
+
+julia> match(regex_name," Jon ")
+RegexMatch(" Jon ")
+
+julia> match(regex_name,"[Jon]") === nothing
+true
+```
+
 ## [Byte Array Literals](@id man-byte-array-literals)
 
 Another useful non-standard string literal is the byte-array string literal: `b"..."`. This