Javascript/jQuery - parse hashtags in a string using regex, except for anchors in URLs

Question

I\'ve looked at a couple of other possible solutions on SO but didn\'t see any that were doing what I was doing.

Currently I have been able to parse a string and det

Answer 1

The idea is to try to match the "a" tag first and after trying the hashtag subpattern that is in a capturing group. A callback function tests the capturing group and returns the "a" tag or the modifier hashtag substring:

var str = ' qsdqd #toto (#titi) ^#t-_-Ata';

var result = str.replace(/]*>|\B(#[^\W_][\w-]*)/gi,
                         function (m, p) {
                          return (p) ? ''+m+'' : m;
                         });

console.log(result);