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

Working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/jkeyes/sxx3T/

var re = new RegExp(".*\/(.*)$");
var src="folder/foo/bar/x982j/second822.jpg";
var m = re.exec(src);
alert(m[1]); // first group