Question

If you have text coming from a database such as:

 "New Apple TV Offers 8 GB of Internal Storage, 256 MB RAM http://t.co/fQ7rquF"

Is there a helper method that takes that text and wraps the web address as a anchor tag?

Answer 1

Off the top of my head I would run a regular expression to match a link pattern and throw the anchor tags around it.

Found this on google:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions; 

public string ConvertURLsToHyperlinks(string sInput) 
{ 
    return Regex.Replace(sInput, @"(\bhttp://[^ ]+\b)", @"<a href=""$0"">$0</a>"); 
}

It looks for “http://” followed by anything that’s not a space, separated by word boundaries.