Suppose I have
{ price: '$ 9.99 USD' }
and in my jQuery template I want to do this
{{html String(price).replace(/([^A-Z ]+)/gi, '<em>$1</em>')}}
Check out this fiddle and notice the change in output that adding/removing the $1 makes: http://jsfiddle.net/brettwp/KNAtz/
Is
$&what you want?http://jsfiddle.net/KNAtz/5/