jQuery find/replace without changing original text

Question

Is there a way in jQuery to find a string of text in jQuery and not replace it with something else but wrap that text with an element so when the script is finished it spits

Answer 1

You can just use .replace(), for example:

var str = "Hello world to all people";
str = str.replace(/(world to all)/g, "$1");

You can give it a try here applied to say the html of an element:

$("span").html(function(i, t) {
    return t.replace(/(world to all)/g, "$1");
});