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    copied!<p>I'm trying to use JQuery to achieve the following logic:</p> <ul> <li>Replace the string value of <code>[url="http://www.google.com"]Google[/url]</code> with <code>&lt;a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;</code></li> </ul> <p>Please see my HTML page below. The problem is that on pressing the button, the orignal text is just pasted and no RegEx replacements are made.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head runat="server"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; //&lt;![CDATA[ function processJs() { var oldtext = $("#oldtext").html(); var newtext = oldtext.replace('\[url\s?=\s?"?(.*?)"?\](.*?)\[\/url\]', '&lt;a href="$1"&gt;$2&lt;/a&gt;'); $('#mydiv').html(newtext); } //]]&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;form id="form1" runat="server"&gt; &lt;div id="oldtext"&gt; Try this funky new search engine: [url="http://www.google.com"]Google[/url] Or this older one from back in the day: [url="http://uk.altavista.com"]AltaVista[/url] &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;input type="button" id="btn" value="Replace" onclick="processJs(); return false;" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="mydiv" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 2px inset #aaaaaa"&gt; Replaced text will go here. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've had this RegEx pattern work using ASP.NET, so I'm not sure where the problem lies when ported to JavaScript...</p>
 

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