regular expression replace multiple matching pattern with link

Question

I have text fields that contains one or multiple occurrence of some code like "XX00123" or "XX00456", for example,

The XX00123 is a sibling of XX00456 and parent of XX00789

I would like to use regex to replace each occurrence of the code thing with a link to it. The result of above example would be then,

The <A HREF='http://server.com/XX00123'>XX00123</A> is a sibling of <A HREF='http://server.com/XX00456'>XX00456</A> and parent of <A HREF='http://server.com/XX00789'>XX00789</A>

I think I could do it with

1. put the search result in an array,
2. if the array is not empty, construct the text string of the link for each element in the array,
3. do a loop to find each occurrence again and replace it with the link

But is there any way to do this regular expression just in one line with JavaScript and/or JQuery?

Answer 1

You can use the following here.

var result = str.replace(/\b(XX\d+)\b/gi, "<A HREF='http://server.com/$1'>$1</A>");

Working Demo

Answer 2

You could use something like this:

var re = /([X0-9]+)/gi; 
var result = str.replace(re, "<A HREF='http://server.com/$1'>$1</A>");

REGEX101

The regex will match one or more x followed by numbers until a space or a non-numeric value.

Answer 3

With the following code,

var result = str.replace(/(XX(\d{5}))/ig, "<A HREF='server.com/$2'>$1</A>");

The result would be,

The <A HREF='http://server.com/00123'>XX00123</A> is a sibling of <A HREF='http://server.com/00456'>XX00456</A> and parent of <A HREF='http://server.com/00789'>XX00789</A>

The $1 represents "(XX(\\d{5}))" - the out side pair of parentheses, and the $2 represents "(\\d{5})" - the inside pair of parentheses.