JSHint regex warnings

Note to self: when getting regular expression warnings from JSHint, remember the inline option for disabling them.

/*jshint regexp: false */

This is useful for adding to the top of a function definition when you want to use "unsafe" regular expressions.  Apparently the idea is that using an unescaped "." in your regular expressions can match more data than you intend and potentially lead to bad validation and insecure applications.  So it's actually a good thing that JSHint check for this.

On the other hand, in my case the regex in question was just a simple extraction of the extension from a file name.  Since I was comparing the result to a white-list and substituting a known default if it wasn't found, there wasn't really any serious risk.  I just wanted JSHint to shut up.

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