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replaceUrlsInText.js
// from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37684/replace-url-with-html-links-javascript
function replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(text) {
var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig;
return text.replace(exp,"<a href='$1'>$1</a>");
}
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