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Asked: 2026-05-21T17:55:19+00:00

I stumbled across this article which was talking about AJAX and jQuery and I

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I stumbled across this article which was talking about AJAX and jQuery and I reached this line

hash = hash.replace(/^.*#/, '');

where hash is in the form #page1,#page2 etc…

Now what I don’t understand is why 

hash = hash.replace(/^#/, '');

will not suffice. From the Mozilla Docs,

^ Matches beginning of input. If the multiline flag is set to true, also matches immediately after a line break character.

So with this caret alone I should be able to match the hash value, what is the author trying to do ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your proposed regex will match only a hash symbol right at the beginning of the string, and nowhere else. The first regex you posted will match everything up to the the first hash symbol in the string.

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