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No, I took your text at its word. Your documentation is wrong?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: strip JS-comments
by Skeeve (Parson) on Jun 10, 2003 at 14:02 UTC
    No. It isn't. But your " // text " is not a // but a string. So my script doesn't even notice there is a // inside the string.

    On the other hand; My script will fail given something like 

      var.match(//);

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      No it's not legal according to M$IE 6.0 and 5.5. It returns a "Syntax error". So it seems empty regexes are not allowed and you are safe.

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