I am trying to replace all the occurences of a value in a string and with another value

what I have so far is

var result = "Cooker Works" 
var searchterm = "cooker wor";

searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function (item) {
   result = result.replace(new RegExp(item, 'g'), "<strong>" + item + "</strong>");
});
    
console.log(result)

I am trying to replace all the occurences of a value in a string and with another value

what I have so far is

var result = "Cooker Works" 
var searchterm = "cooker wor";

searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function (item) {
   result = result.replace(new RegExp(item, 'g'), "<strong>" + item + "</strong>");
});
    
console.log(result)

The result I am after should look like

result = "<strong>Cooker</strong> <strong>Wor</strong>s";

I am having problems handling the case, Is there any way I can ignore this and still get the result I am after

• javascript
• regex

4 Answers 4

You will get the result you want using capture groups and the i (ignoreCase) modifier. You can reference the capture group with $1.

var result = "Cooker Works";
var searchterm = "cooker wor";

searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function(item) {
    result = result.replace(new RegExp(`(${item})`, 'ig'), "<strong>$1</strong>");
});

console.log(result)

See MDN for more details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace#Specifying_a_string_as_a_parameter

You need to use i modifier for case-insensitive matching

new RegExp(item, 'ig')

var result = "Cooker Works"
var searchterm = "cooker wor";

searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function(item) {
  var matchs = result.match(new RegExp(item, 'ig'));
  if (matchs.length)
    result = result.replace(new RegExp(item, 'ig'), "<strong>" + matchs[0] + "</strong>");
});

console.log(result)

You need to add case-insensitive modifier. do something like this:

    var result = "Cooker Works" 
    var searchterm = "cooker wor";
    
    searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function (item) {
    result = result.replace(new RegExp('(' + item + ')', 'gi'),'<strong>$1</strong>');
    });
    console.log(result);

This will solve your problem

var result = "Cooker Works" 
var searchterm = "cooker wor";

searchterm.split(" ").forEach(function (item) {
     result = result.replace(new RegExp(item, 'ig'), "<strong>" + result.match(new RegExp(item, 'ig')) + "</strong>");
});

console.log(result)