Check if a string contains any URLs and wrap them all into HTML tags.
/**
*
* Convert URLs in String to Anchor Links
*
* Help taken from:
* http://stackoverflow.com/a/34732417
*
* Author: Zeshan Ahmed
* Author URI: http://www.zeshanahmed.com/
*
*/
function convertURLToLinks( str ) {
return str.replace(/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/g, '<a href="$&" title="$&">$&</a>');
}
// Usage
var str = 'some random text http://google.com some random text https://yahoo.com';
str = convertURLToLinks( str );
// Result:
// some random text <a href="http://google.com" title="http://google.com">http://google.com</a> some random text <a href="https://yahoo.com" title="https://yahoo.com">https://yahoo.com</a>