runtime error '800a139a' - Unexpected Quantifier

[jaslr]

I have an error

Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a139a'

Unexpected quantifier

somewhere in the following block of text, I understand it has to do something with regular Expressions but to what extent I am not sure?

function strip_html(str_html)
':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
' removes html tags from str_html
':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
	dim objRegExp, str_output
	set objRegExp = new Regexp

	if not isNull(str_html) then

	objRegExp.IgnoreCase = True
	objRegExp.Global = True
	objRegExp.Pattern = "<(.|\n)+?>"
	str_output = objRegExp.Replace(str_html, "")
	objRegExp.Pattern = "\&(.|\n)+?;"
	str_output = objRegExp.Replace(str_output, "")
	str_output = Replace(str_output, "<", "&lt;")
	str_output = Replace(str_output, ">", "&gt;")
	strip_html = str_output

	end if

	set objRegExp = Nothing
end function

Any help would be very appreciated - btw, i'm running IIS as my webserver.

 

[jaslr]

Oh My God, I don't believe it, I had a quick read around this forum for similar problems and I read that the "?" could be causing the problem with their issues. So, I removed them from the following lines: "<(.|\n)+?>" and "\&(.|\n)+?;" and now it works.

rofl -

NB: I hope this can help someone else who has a similar problem to me.

 

[tsuji]

>I read that the "?" could be causing the problem
The point is rather that you should update your script engine to wsh5.6.