RegEx to convert urls in text to links (JavaScript)

Here’s a quick tip.  If you have text that contains urls (i.e. tweets) and want the urls in the text to appear as actual links via HTML, use the following RegEx:

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var message = “Here is some tweet text. Check out: http://www.google.com";

var exp = /(b(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|])/ig;

message = message.replace(exp, “$1”);

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Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37684/how-to-replace-plain-urls-with-links