Is there an equivalent in jQuery to PHP's `preg_replace()`?

Question

Say I have the following:

This path could be anything, we basically want to get the

Answer 1

jQuery is not necessary here; Javascript supports regular expressions on its own, so jQuery is not part of the answer.

Javascript's regex replace function is simply called .replace(), and is a method on the string class. You would use it as follows:

var mystring = 'this is a string';
mystring.replace(/is a/,'might be a');
//mystring is now equal to 'this might be a string'.

That should be enough to get you started. Since you referenced preg_replace() in the question, I assume you already know how to use regular expressions well enough not to need a detailed discussion of how to solve your specific example.