Question

I’m prototyping some text processing to prep research data for coding, and I’ve got a javascript replace statement the bombs in jsFiddle and I cannot figure out why:

   mE[1] = mE[1].replace(/<p.*>/ig, '');­ // <<< this line

I’m trying to remove any opening paragraph tag.

If you look at http://jsfiddle.net/jotarkon/2e5gq/, uncomment that line and see that it the script fails.

— click on the Heading to fire the funciton

This is driving me nuts. any ideas what’s going wrong?

Answer 1

The problem appears to be an actual illegal character somewhere in that line, and I don’t think it has anything to do with the regex. Try typing the whole line in from scratch and delete that one. When I do that, the fiddle works fine (well, it doesn’t get that error at least).

edit — the illegal character is right after the semicolon on that line. Starting from the “//” on your “this line” comment, hit backspace a few times to erase the bogus character and the semicolon, then re-type the semicolon.

edit some more – The characters are the sequence C2 AD (hex).