help with regular expression please

[n8w]

I have a portal where people submit links .. but I want to make sure none of the links end in "/"

for exampel .. I want the links submitted to be like
http://www.phpfreaks.com
not
http://www.phpfreaks.com/

I am trying to check this with javascript .. but can't get it to work

[code]
var the_headline_link=/$(\/)/
if (document.submitlinks.link_url.value.search(the_headline_link) == -1 ){
message+='Link can not end with / \n';
problem='yes';
}
[/code]

[fenway]

Well, first, why not just strip the trailing slash? Second, you need to anchor your RE at the end with a '$', not at the beginning.