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I'm working with jQuery and am trying to write a pattern replace, but it doesn't work. I have this:

var $featured_rewrite = $('#featured').not('.slideshow');
$featured_rewrite.children().attr('href', $featured_rewrite.find('img').attr('src').replace('/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\./i', '.'));

I don't understand why something like this works:

.replace('-500x277.', '.')

but not this, which I even checked with a tool and made sure it was valid and works:

.replace('/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\./i', '.')
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'/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\./i' is a string.

/-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\./i is regex.

"hi".match('/hi/')  // returns null
"hi".match(/hi/)    // returns ["hi"]

Edit: Also, just to be clear, there's nothing wrong with your regex other than the quotes. You may want to consider using /g (i.e. /gi at the end) if you need to replace more than one match, but that's it.

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+1 bryan , nice catch –  kobe Jul 11 '11 at 7:06
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This helped me, thanks. –  RTF Jul 12 '13 at 19:52
    
Uhh, wasted hour on trials and rereading manuals, never noticed the absence of '' until I came here. –  Sandman4 Nov 27 '13 at 12:06

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