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Asked: 2026-06-18T08:11:01+00:00

I think I’m just having too much trouble understanding how to use regex and

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I think I’m just having too much trouble understanding how to use regex and creating links…

I’m working on a Greasemonkey script for a virtual pet game that will create links to the wiki for each creature listed on a certain page. The problem is, new pets get added to the page all the time so I can’t just hardcode the links into the script. I need to search for the creatures names and then make it a link…

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Sample source code from the target page:

<tr>
    <td>Flizzard</td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>Fluff</td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><img src="./images/icons/yes.png" /></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="accomplishments.php?family=Fluff&acc=exalted"><img src="./images/icons/no.png" border="0" /></a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="accomplishments.php?family=Fluff&acc=herd"><img src="./images/icons/no.png" border="0" /></a></td>
</tr>

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“Flizzard” and “Fluff” would be what I want to turn into links… I found this and started working on it, and it might work, except it doesn’t seem to say where to start the match (in a way that makes sense to me anyways), and I have NO clue what to put in (The-Identifier-That-Denotes-End-Of-Text-Of-Interest)

var html = document.body.innerHTML;
html = html.replace( /(http://wiki.unicreatures.com/index.php?title=)(.*?)(The-
Identifier-That-Denotes-End-Of-Text-Of-Interest)/g, $1<a href="path/to/$2">$2</a>$3
);
document.body.innerHTML = html;

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Could somebody maybe please try to explain how that regex works, and what would work for (The-Identifier-That-Denotes-End-Of-Text-Of-Interest) since I don’t seem to see any punctuation or spaces after the creatures names?

Thanks!

(Please NO jQuery info… javascript is enough to wrap my brain around right now LOL)

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  1. Editorial Team

    The other answer didn’t work… but this did

    var mytable = document.getElementById('right').getElementsByTagName('table')[4];
var myrows = mytable.rows

for(i=1;i < myrows.length;i++)
{
var oldInner;
oldInner = myrows[i].cells[0].innerHTML;
var critterName;
critterName=myrows[i].cells[0].textContent;

 myrows[i].cells[0].innerHTML = "<a href='http://wiki.unicreatures.com
/index.php?title=" + critterName + "'"+ 'target="_blank">'+oldInner +"</a>";
}
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