How to replace plain URLs with links?

Question

I am using the function below to match URLs inside a given text and replace them for HTML links. The regular expression is working great, but currently I am only replacing t

Answer 1

/**
 * Convert URLs in a string to anchor buttons
 * @param {!string} string
 * @returns {!string}
 */

function URLify(string){
  var urls = string.match(/(((ftp|https?):\/\/)[\-\w@:%_\+.~#?,&\/\/=]+)/g);
  if (urls) {
    urls.forEach(function (url) {
      string = string.replace(url, '' + url + "");
    });
  }
  return string.replace("(", "
(");
}

simple example