I have a string, such as hello _there_. I'd like to replace the two underscores with <div> and </div> respectively, using JavaScript. The output would (therefore) look like hello <div>there</div>. The string might contain multiple pairs of underscores.

What I am looking for is a way to either run a function on each match, the way Ruby does it:

hello _there_.gsub(/_.*?_/) { |m| <div> + m[1..-2] + </div> }

Or be able to reference a matched group, again the way it can be done in ruby:

hello _there_.gsub(/_(.*?)_/, <div>\1</div>)

Any ideas or suggestions?