Jquery regex replace with search

Question

I am trying to replace a string text9 text text to 9 only.

The code below is working but returning literally {1}

$("body").html($("body").html().replace(/text([0-9]+)[ \t]text text/g,'{1}'));

Instead of returning literally {1}, I want it to return the [0-9]+ from the search.

How would you do that with Regex?

palaѕн · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-10 12:56:59Z

1

Replace your code

yourstring.replace(/text([0-9]+)[ \t]text text/g, '{1}');

with this:

yourstring.replace(/text([0-9]+)[ \t]text text/g, '$1');

and your code will be like:

$('body').html(function (_, html) {
    return html.replace(/text([0-9]+)[ \t]text text/g, '$1');
});

answered Jul 10, 2013 at 12:50

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