Question

I use a replace to wrap all the words in a string with <a/> tags, but if a word contains a dash or hyphen it splits the word, e.g: hello-there becomes hello - <a>there</a>.

This is what I use now:

string.replace(/\b(\w+)\b/g, '<a href="javascript:void(0)">$1</a>');

Also, how can I remove periods or commas from the words?

Answer 1

<script type="text/javascript">

var str="hello-there";

document.write(str.replace(/\b([\w+-]+)\b/g,'<a href="javascript:void(0)">$1</a>')
);

</script>