JSLint reports “Insecure ^” for my regex — what does that mean?

Question

I\'m trying to get my Javascript code 100% JSLint clean.

I\'ve got a regular expression:

 linkRgx = /https?:\\/\\/[^\\s;|\\\\*\'\"!,()<>]+/g;
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Answer 1

(answering my own question) I did some digging... JSLint documentation says:

Disallow insecure . and [^...]. in /RegExp/ regexp: true if . and [^...] should not be allowed in RegExp literals. These forms should not be used when validating in secure applications.

What I have done is disable the JSLint error for the offending line (as I'm not dealing with needing to be secure from potentially malicious user input:

/*jslint regexp: false*/
.... Javascript statement(s) ....
/*jslint regexp: true*/