javascript escaping //

Question

how will i escape the slashes // in javascript

var j = /^(ht|f)tp(s?)://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w-./?%&=]*)?$;/

Answer 1

Use a \ for escaping, like this:

var j = /^(ht|f)tp(s?):\/\/([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(\/[\w-./?%&=]*)?$;/