[thelist] regex problem

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

Hi there, 

My weekly regex conundrum! I have a string where I want to strip out any occurance of a wildcard
'*'. I am attempting this:

var strippedNameValue = nameValue.replace(/^[\*]$/g, "");

with the test string "t**"

This does not work, I always end up with the same string, it is not replacing the *. I have
escaped the * but it does not seem to match it - what am I doing wrong?

TIA

Tom


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