Is there an equivalent in jQuery to PHP's `preg_replace()`?

Question

Say I have the following:

This path could be anything, we basically want to get the

Answer 1

You could use replace() which is like PHP's preg_replace() (it too accepts a PCRE, with some limitations such as no look behinds)...

str.replace(/.*\//, '')

jsFiddle.

Alternatively, you could use...

str.split('/').pop();

jsFiddle.