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Turns urls within a block of text into hyperlinks.
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linkify.js
function linkify(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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