Question

I have this string

@[123:peterwateber] hello! good day!

I wanna change it to <a href="123">peterwateber</a> &lt;b&gt;hellow!&lt;/b&gt;! good day!

what I want to do first, from the given string, get first the @[123:peterwateber] convert it to an anchor tag and the remaining string with htmlspecialchars will be parsed to plain text. How to do this?

I did the first one using php by this code: preg_match('#@\[(\w+)\:(\w+)\]#', $hidden_input, $m) but I wanna do it in jquery or javascript this time… any suggestions? I badly need your help guys its been 3 days solving this problem 🙁

Answer 1

Regex replace in javascript

'@[123:peterwateber] hello! good day!'.replace(
    /@\[(.*):(.*)\](.*)/,
    '<a href="$1">$2</a>$3'
 )