Using Wildcard in uri.replace?

[bsquare]

Is it possible to use a wildcard in a uri.replace call in a script? It doesn't seem to be working for me in this case so I'm guessing not, but maybe I'm just using it incorrectly.

I'm trying to make a change on the Link URL in the RSS (http://www.onmilwaukee.com/rss/rss.xml) from this:
http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/gigs1105.html

to the print version this:
http://onmilwaukee.com/articles/print/gigs1105.html

Problem is the first sub dir is always changing, so in this example it is "/music/articles/" needs to change to "/articles/print/" it could also be "/market/articles/" or "/bars/articles/" Bascically it's the first thing after the ./com/*/articles/ that I need to change.

So right now I'm trying this:
document.onanchorlink = function(link) {
// Set referrer to original uri
link.referrer = link.uri;
// Rewrite uri to point to printable version
link.uri = link.uri.replace("onmilwaukee.com/*/articles/", "onmilwaukee.com/articles/print/");
};

With no luck. If I need to set that first virtual directory (/music/" as a variable, to trap it, I'm not sure how to do that. Sorry for the obviously script-newbee question, but I'm just now starting to learn this a (very) little.
Any suggestions?

[Laurens]

Another approach would be to extract the filename and append that to the base "printable" URI:

document.onanchorlink = function(link) {
link.referrer = link.uri;
var filename = link.uri.substring(link.uri.lastIndexOf('/'));
link.uri = "http://onmilwaukee.com/articles/print" + filename;
};

[bsquare]

Yeah, I was trying to figure out a way to do that as well. Wasn't familiar with the "lastIndexOf()". That is similar to another one I'm looking at, AnandTech. The Story ID is the last number of the URI, but it isn't right after the last /. Can I use another char maybe, like the "?"
So the story URI is:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2598

and to grab the last "i=2598" to turn it into:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2598

should be something like this?:
document.onanchorlink = function(link) {
link.referrer = link.uri;
var filename = link.uri.substring(link.uri.lastIndexOf('?'));
link.uri = "http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?" + filename;
};

Or am I not grasping the concept of this lastIndexOf call?

[bsquare]

Also, Laurens, you said "another approach" does that mean that the "*" in the replace should work?