I need to search the text in a HTML document for reg-exes(emails, phone numbers, etc) and words. The matches need to be highlighted and be made anchor-able so that a link can be generated to jump to the location of the matches. So not only does it need to find matches using patterns in needs to do a replace do add the proper html code.
I am currently using jquery but I am not very happy with the speed. In a 1.5mb file it takes about 5 seconds to match 2 regexes and it increases when I add more search criteria.
Does anyone know of a fast method to find regex matches in a large document using javascript?