consider this string:
the quick <input type="button" disabled="" value="brown.fox" /> jumps over the <input type="button" disabled="" value="lazy.dog" />
I would like to replace every occurrence of the <input type="button" tag with a string that contains the value attribute of the tag, specifically with this string ${}
So the end result should be
the quick ${brown.fox} jumps over the ${lazy.dog}
As you are in JavaScript, you have a DOM parser at your fingertips. Use it!
const input = `the quick <input type="button" disabled="" value="brown.fox" /> jumps over the <input type="button" disabled="" value="lazy.dog" />`;
const container = document.createElement('div');
container.innerHTML = input;
const buttons = container.querySelectorAll("input[type=button]");
buttons.forEach(button=>{
button.replaceWith("${"+button.value+"}");
});
const output = container.innerHTML;
let text = 'the quick <input type="button" disabled="" value="brown.fox" /> jumps over the <input type="button" disabled="" value="lazy.dog" />';
text = text.replace(/<input[^>]*value\s*=\s*["'](.+?)["']\s*[^>]*>/g,"${$1}")
You need to use regex for this.
This code should work:
a = 'the quick <input type="button" disabled="" value="brown.fox" /> jumps over the <input type="button" disabled="" value="lazy.dog" />'
pattern = /<input type=\"button\".*?value=\"([^\"]+)\" \/>/gm
matches = a.matchAll(pattern);
for (const match of matches) {
a = a.replace(match[0], "${" + match[1] + "}")
}
console.log(a)