Question

Can anyone help with a function that will parse all urls into valid html links in a text string?

For example:

“Welcome to www.nerds4life.com. View our articles at nerds4life.com or at http://nerds4life.com or also http://www.nerds4life.com“

would become:

“Welcome to http://www.nerds4life.com. View our articles at nerds4life.com or at http://nerds4life.com or also http://www.nerds4life.com“

What would be the best way to approach this. Regex (and if so, how?) or loop through each word in the text (would think that’s less efficient)

Thanks

Answer 1

Again… there may be a more elegant regex…

Certainly feel free to google for “good” regex’s for finding URLs if this one falls short.

<cfset myText = "Welcome to www.nerds4life.com. View our articles at nerds4life.com or at http://nerds4life.com or also http://www.nerds4life.com or at https://foo.com or http://123.com" />

<cfset myNewText = rereplaceNoCase( myText, '((http(s)?://)?((www\.)?\w+\.\w{2,6}))', '<a href="http://\4">\1</a>', 'all' ) />