regex variable

Is there a way of using a variable in a regex?

I'm constantly looking for the first octet of IP addresses, so I do:
/[^0-9\.]10\.

What I've been doing is hitting / and up arrow and then edit but if I
could store [^0-9\.] in something easily accessed, that would save
some time.

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