regex - Finding/replacing character entities with jQuery -

i have markup looks this:

<div id="breadcrumb"><a href="http://domain.com/site/">site</a> &raquo;  <a href="http://domain.com/site/sub/"></a> &raquo;  <a href="http://domain.com/site/sub/sub/">heading</a> &raquo; document title</div> 

on page, looks like:

site » » heading » document title

i'd use jquery empty "a" tag, remove it, , remove 1 of >> characters.

i have this:

$(document).ready(function() {     if ($('#breadcrumb').length) {         $('#breadcrumb a:empty').replacewith('-');         $('#breadcrumb').html($('#breadcrumb').html().replace(/» - »/, "»"));     } }); 

notice >> characters in javascript code itself. works, doesn't seem right. looking proper way find character via regex. or, looking code fine. :) i've tested it, , seems work in browsers i've used. thanks.

(i fix process creates these breadcrumbs, no longer outputs empty tag... looking stop-gap!)

you're good, regex expressions in javascript denoted using slashes in same way string denoted quotes. it's confusing when first see valid javascript regex expression.