Question

I have following string

hello[code:1], world [code:2], hello world

I want to replace this string to

hello <a href="someurl/1">someothercode</a>, world <a href="someurl/2">someothercode</a>, hello world

I want this String conversion using javascript reg ex

I tried

/\[code:(\d+)\]/

reg ex but not sure how to tokenize them

Answer 1

Does this fulfill your needs?

mystring.replace(/\[code:([0-9]+)\]/g, '<a href="someurl/$1">somelink</a>');