Replace words with html elements

Question

I am working on a Twitter program and am stuck on how to replace words with html elements. For example:

Replace: Hello #World, This is a Tweet!

With: Hello <a href="">#World</a>, this is a Tweet!

I know that you can use regex in replace() but I am unsure of how to reference to the matched string after in the second argument of replace()

Thank you!

scrblnrd3 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-08 23:31:49Z

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You can use this regular expression

str="Hello #World"
str.replace(/#(\S*)/g,'<a href="">$1</a>');

answered Jan 8, 2014 at 23:31

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