Re: String.replace() with regex

From	Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: String.replace() with regex
Date	2011-12-17 18:31 +0100
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:42:04 -0800 (PST), Jason C wrote:

>I have this regex, which works as expected:
>
>a = a.replace(/ itxtHarvested="(.*?)"/i, "");
>
>I modified it to this:
>
>a = a.replace(/\s*itxtHarvested="*(.*?)"*/i, "");

The inner parentheses serve no purpose. I would remove them.

If, however, you are actually trying to match parentheses, then
you have to escape them: \( \)

Hans-Georg

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String.replace() with regex Jason C <jwcarlton@gmail.com> - 2011-12-17 02:42 -0800
  Re: String.replace() with regex Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2011-12-17 14:08 +0100
  Re: String.replace() with regex Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-17 14:12 +0100
  Re: String.replace() with regex Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2011-12-17 18:31 +0100

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