Preserving case / capitalization with JavaScript replace method

Question

I\'m continuing work on a search term suggestion tool using Jquery UI. I am now working on displaying the results with the search term pattern in bold. I have implemented

Answer 1

You can add your expression in a group by encapsulating them in parentheses

var exp = new RegExp("(" + this.term + ")", "gi") ;
var rep = item.label.replace( exp, "$1");

You can the refere to that group using $1.

See here for more details about backreferences.