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I am looking for something i can do in jquery to search through for a certain word and change it into a link with the same word<br />
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for example lets say i have this div<br />
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We all know alot about doctors but dr. thomasson is an especially good one.<br />
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&lt;/div&gt;<br />
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I want some how to look for 'thomasson' and change it too a href link so it looks like<br />
&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;thomasson&lt;/a&gt;<br />
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Please help
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I am looking for something i can do in jquery to search through for a certain word and change it into a link with the same word

for example lets say i have this div

<div>
We all know alot about doctors but dr. thomasson is an especially good one.

</div>

I want some how to look for 'thomasson' and change it too a href link so it looks like
<a href="#">thomasson</a>

Please help

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