Question

I am writing some javascript for my website.

I would like to be able to turn (using javascript) specific names into links.

for example, given the name Benjamin it would turn :

Hello my name is Benjamin

into

Hello my name is <a href='something'>Benjamin</a>

The trick is, I don’t know what names I need to convert in advance, I receive those in an ajax response. Also, I need to be able to handle stuff along the lines of

<b>B</b>enjam<b>in</b>

while not touching stuff like

B<br />enja<br />min

I would like to know what would be the best practice for designing something able to do this sort of parsing. If there is a ready solution that would probably be better.

Thanks in advance for the help

Answer 1

Apply this to your text:

.replace(new RegExp("Benjamin".split('').join(".*?"),"g"),'<a href="#">$&</a>')
                  //    ^------------------------ word to be replaced

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