Javascript: Replacing chan-like replies within a string

Question

I am here because I need help solving this problem. So I have this string (for example). Oh and obviously the >> are displayed as >>.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet >>21, consetetur sadipscin>>22g elitr.

>>11 I agree.

>>61 Lorem ipsumdur. See >>36

What I want to do now is: replace the

>>INTEGER

with the following:

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="scroll(INTEGER)">&gt;&gt;INTEGER</a>

Answer 1

Try this :

yourString.replace(/>>[0-9]+/g,'firstPart'+'$&'+'secondPart');

Refer javascript replace method for more details. Where "$&" , Inserts the matched substring. So the final code would be :

yourString.replace(/&gt;&gt;[0-9]+/g,'<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="alert($1);">'+'$&'+'<\/a>');

Answer 2

You just call a replace in scroll function.

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var stringToReplace = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet >>21, consetetur sadipscin>>22g elitr......',
textReplaced = ' your new value here';


function scroll(integer){

   return stringToReplace.replace(new RegExp('>>'+integer,'g'),textReplaced);

}