How to target specific letter/word with jquery?

Question

As a mere example, I want to apply the class \"fancy\" to all occurrences of the sign \"&\" in the document.

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Answer 1

Regex is commonly used for this:

http://chirale.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/character-substitution-on-jquery/

http://forum.jquery.com/topic/how-to-select-specific-characters-and-replace-them