Javascript Regular Expressions Break Syntax Highlighting?!

[Maximus]

For some reason, I just came across this today, and its incredibly annoying. Using a simple regular expression such as the below breaks syntax highlighting in my editor (Dashcode in this case). Frankly, using this kind of syntax makes no sense anyways as strings (even expressions) should always be used inside " or ', but you can't do that here for some reason.

string.replace(/blabla/, '');

Any suggestions? All I want to do is to be able to replace ALL occurrences of a string quickly and easily.

Edited September 27, 2009 by Maximus

[Ingolme]

Notepad++ works with regular expressions. In Javascript they're marked in blue.Since you're only replacing a string, then this should work:

string.replace('example','');

The replace method accepts both strings and regular expressions as the first parameter.

[Synook]

Frankly, using this kind of syntax makes no sense anyways as strings (even expressions) should always be used inside " or ', but you can't do that here for some reason.

JavaScript has another special type of literal, the "regular expression". It's not a string.