Passing $& in replace()-function to another function

This code will take str and put each word in a <span>. I want to add some functionality, so some words will be highlighted, but can’t figure out how to pass $& (which is a word) to the highLight function. Right now I have written {$&} which does not work.

str = "Adam Sandler"
const highLight = (param) => {
 conosle.log(param)
}

const wrapWordsInSpan = (str) => {
   const addedSpanToText = str.replace(
     /w+/g,
     `<span id="text-container" style="color: ${highLight(`{$&}`)}"}>$&</span>`
   );

Answer

You’re really close, but you have to pass a function as the second argument to replace if you want to use that value dynamically (for instance, to call highlight), like this:

const wrapWordsInSpan = (str) => {
    const addedSpanToText = str.replace(
       /w+/g,
       match => `<span id="text-container" style="color: ${highLight(match)}"}>${match}</span>`
    );
    return addedSpanToText;
};

The match => `<span id="text-container" style="color: ${highLight(match)}"}>${match}</span>` part is the function. It gets called with the matched text as an argument (the equivalent of the $& token in the string), which I’ve called match above (capture group values are subsequent arguments, details on MDN). What it returns gets used as the replacement:

const wrapWordsInSpan = (str) => {
    const addedSpanToText = str.replace(
       /w+/g,
       match => `<span id="text-container" style="color: ${highLight(match)}"}>${match}</span>`
    );
    return addedSpanToText;
};

const highLight = (param) => {
    return param === "Adam" ? "green" : "black";
};

const str = "Adam Sandler"

console.log(wrapWordsInSpan(str));