Uncaught SyntaxError : Unexpected token ;

Question

I am getting Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ; at THE LINE NUMBER

    // HTML Helper
    var documentHtml = function(html){
        // Prepare
        var result = String(html)
            .replace(/<!DOCTYPE[^>]*>/i, '')
            .replace(/<(html|head|body|title|meta|script)([s>])/gi,'<div class="document-$1"$2')
            .replace(/</(html|head|body|title|meta|script)>/gi,'</div>')
        ;  // << THE LINE NUMBER 
        // Return
        return $.trim(result);
    };

Not sure what is wrong.

Answer 1

The problem is:

/</(html|head|body|title|meta|script)>/gi

At the time of writing, SO's highlighting shows the problem with the original: the regex seems to be /</ .

It should be:

/<\/(html|head|body|title|meta|script)>/gi

Since Javascript uses forward slashes to delimit regexes, you have to escape any forward slash inside it with a backslash.

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IMO, using forward slashes for regexes was the most unfortunate syntax decision of JavaScript:

1. Parsing JavaScript is difficult because of / starting multiline comments, single line comments, division, and regexes. (Sublime, my editor choice, gets it wrong. Dreamweaver gets it wrong.)

2. It makes regexes for URIs/URLs particularly ugly.

Answer 2

Try to change:

.replace(/</(html|head|body|title|meta|script)>/gi,'</div>')

to:

.replace(/<\/(html|head|body|title|meta|script)>/gi,'<\/div>')

You need to escape / with \\ in Javascript