What is causing these JavaScript errors when using jQuery's filter() inside a namespace?

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SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

Can someone tell me why these errors are occurring and what to do to fix them?

/*global $:false */

Blah.BlahBlah = {
  findLinks : function () {
    "use strict";

    $('a').filter(function () {
      return !(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test($(this).attr('href')));
    }).text("***");
  }
};

Throws these errors in JSHint :

Line 10: } Unexpected ''.
Line 11: }; Expected '}' to match '{' from line 3 and instead saw ';'.
Line 11: }; Missing semicolon.

Chrome console shows this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

However, using this code (JSFiddle) in an encapsulated anonymous function does not throw an error:

/*global $:false */

(function() {

  "use strict";

  $('a').filter(function() {
    return !(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test($(this).attr('href')));
  }).text("***");

}());

Jsfiddle copies an illegal character when you do a straight copy-paste from their site... Open your inspector in chrome and you'll see it. — ahren, Nov 28 '12 at 20:49
The first example appears to work fine in the Google Chrome console. — Ivan, Nov 28 '12 at 20:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '12 at 20:49

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I pasted your first fragment into jsbin and I saw a strange character before the second-to-last close brace }... possibly a normally non-printable character?

answered Nov 28 '12 at 20:49

Jim Blackler

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I see what you mean. The character has been removed. – Cofey Nov 28 '12 at 20:53
@Cofey, it seems that you stated that that wasn't the problem so soon then – Alexander Nov 28 '12 at 20:55

What is causing these JavaScript errors when using jQuery's filter() inside a namespace?

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