replace all linkable url in a string to real link [ 1044 views ]
As earlier to solve this is easy to extend the string object.
if(!String.linkify) {
String.prototype.linkify = function() {
// http://, https://, ftp://
var urlPattern = /\b(?:https?|ftp):\/\/[a-z0-9-+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[a-z0-9-+&@#\/%=~_|]/gim;
// www. sans http:// or https://
var pseudoUrlPattern = /(^|[^\/])(www\.[\S]+(\b|$))/gim;
// Email addresses
var emailAddressPattern = /\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?(?:\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})+/gim;
return this
.replace(urlPattern, '<a href="$&" target="blank">$&</a>')
.replace(pseudoUrlPattern, '$1<a href="http://$2" target="blank">$2</a>')
.replace(emailAddressPattern, '<a href="mailto:$&" target="blank">$&</a>');
};
}


