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To have a $ in your replace strings in Javascript regular expressions, it needs to be escaped with another $ ($$) not a slash (\$)
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js-tips-escaped-dollar.js
"I <feeling> that".replace( /<(.+?)>/g, "\$$1" );
//won't work - will produce ""I $1 that""
"I <feeling> that".replace( /<(.+?)>/g, "$$$1" );
//works - "I $feeling that"
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