CodePress / Bugs / #47 trailling slash in regex literal looks like a comment

#47 trailling slash in regex literal looks like a comment

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Updated: 2008-06-26

Created: 2008-06-26

Creator: Michael Mathews

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Given:
if (/\*\//.test("*/")) alert("!");

sees this as the start of a single-line comment:
//.test("*/")) alert("!");

Discussion

Michael Mathews - 2008-06-26

Fix for this specific problem, but in general the design of codepress is likely to fail on things like // in a string, and probably other places.

javascript.patch

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Michael Mathews - 2008-06-26

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File Added: javascript.patch

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