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Convert strings to links
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// source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3890175/2281322 | |
function linkify(inputText) { | |
var replacedText, replacePattern1, replacePattern2, replacePattern3; | |
//URLs starting with http://, https://, or ftp:// | |
replacePattern1 = /(\b(https?|ftp):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/gim; | |
replacedText = inputText.replace(replacePattern1, '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>'); | |
//URLs starting with "www." (without // before it, or it'd re-link the ones done above). | |
replacePattern2 = /(^|[^\/])(www\.[\S]+(\b|$))/gim; | |
replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern2, '$1<a href="http://$2" target="_blank">$2</a>'); | |
//Change email addresses to mailto:: links. | |
replacePattern3 = /(([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.])+@[a-zA-Z\_]+?(\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})+)/gim; | |
replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern3, '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>'); | |
return replacedText; | |
} |
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