[thelist] regex problem

[Frank]

At 08:47 AM 2005-10-10, you wrote:
>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?


The answer to todays RegEx puzzle, brought to you by Tom Dell'Aringa, maker 
of fine websites worldwide is

    s= "* this *one was ******* easy*";
    s = s.replace(/\**/g, "");
    alert(s);



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