regex match() works in FF/Chrome but not IE 8

Question

I have the following jQuery call, which returns a match in FF/Chrome, but returns null in IE 8.

Here\'s the fiddle if you\'d like to try it for yourself.

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Answer 1

Use this RegExp:

/\d+-(\d+)\xa0of+\xa0(\d+)/

http://jsfiddle.net/gilly3/KNbpN/

Sadly, it seems, IE8 doesn't recognize non-breaking spaces as a white-space (\s) match.