Javascript Regex ignore a hyphen

Question

I need a little help in how to structure the following Regex replace. I have a string of names and I need to replace one of the names with code that wraps a bold around it. My problem is that sometimes the name is hyphenated such as Jones-Smith. Some times the hyphen is missing such as Jones Smith so if the string is

     NameString = "Green, Blue, Yellow, Jones-Smith, Pink"  

I need

   NameString ="Green, Blue, Yellow, <b>Jones-Smith</b>, Pink"

and if I have

       NameString= "Green, Blue, Yellow, Jones Smith, Pink"

I need

        NameString= "Green, Blue, Yellow, <b>Jones Smith</b>, Pink"

I could have either

       thisLastName= "Jones-Smith"

or

      thisLastName= "Jones Smith"

   

Answer 1

You probably don't need regex for this. Try using replace with string instead.

Answer 2

I'm not entirely clear on your purpose or reason for using regex rather than simply string.replace('name-to-replace') , but you could use the vertical line character for OR in regex | :

let regex = /Jones-Smith|Jones Smith/