From be9302b710416715b9d278f589be99fa6f9e7cb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Serduke <davidserduke@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:47:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #2077 by adding a var to make it a local variable
 instead of initializing a global one.

---
 src/selector.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/selector.js b/src/selector.js
index 51f165a0..1badc693 100644
--- a/src/selector.js
+++ b/src/selector.js
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ jQuery.extend({
 				if ( (m = re.exec(t)) != null ) {
 					r = [];
 
-					nodeName = m[2].toUpperCase(), merge = {};
+					var merge = {};
+					nodeName = m[2].toUpperCase();
 					m = m[1];
 
 					for ( var j = 0, rl = ret.length; j < rl; j++ ) {