Javascript Find Names In Strings

What's a good JavaScript library for searching a given string for a large list of names. For example, given a list of 1000 politicians names find every instance in a string and wra

Solution 1:

var names = ['foo','bar'];
var content = "this foo is bar foobar  foo ";
for (var c=0,l=names.length;c<l;c++) {
  var r = new RegExp("\\b("+names[c]+")\\b","gi");
  content = content.replace(r,'<span class="mp">$1</span>');
}