Question

I have the following RegEx

id=(.*?) | id='(.*?)' 

The reason for this is I am trying to replace Ids from the browsers DOM using JavaScript. IE, however strips quotes from element atributes as it appears not to require them in the DOM

The problem I have is that the backrefererences from each alternate statement are in separate groups ($1 and $2) as the match is only one OR the other can I return both the backreference as a single backreference?

EDIT:

<div id='test1' /><div id=test2 /> 

will match as follows

    match         |  $1   |   $2 --------------------------------     id='test1'    | test1 |     id=test2      |       |  test2 

I just want both backreferences to be added to $1

Answer 1

id='?([\w-]*)'?