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SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

Can someone tell me why these errors are occurring and what to do to fix them?

/*global $:false */

Blah.BlahBlah = {
  findLinks : function () {
    "use strict";

    $('a').filter(function () {
      return !(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test($(this).attr('href')));
    }).text("***");
  ​}
};

Throws these errors in JSHint :

• Line 10: ​} Unexpected ‘​’.
• Line 11: }; Expected ‘}’ to match ‘{‘ from line 3 and instead saw ‘;’.
• Line 11: }; Missing semicolon.

Chrome console shows this error:

• Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

However, using this code (JSFiddle) in an encapsulated anonymous function does not throw an error:

/*global $:false */

(function() {

  "use strict";

  $('a').filter(function() {
    return !(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test($(this).attr('href')));
  }).text("***");

}());

Answer 1

I pasted your first fragment into jsbin and I saw a strange character before the second-to-last close brace }… possibly a normally non-printable character?