How do I linkify text using ActionScript 3

Question

I have a text that I want to linkify (identify URLs and convert them to HTML links). The text could be multi-line, and could contain multiple urls like the example below.

Answer 1

ooph ... why does everybody use regex these days, to accomplish super simple tasks? also, you forgot, that "+" is a valid character for URLs, as a replacement for space, and even an awful lot of other characters may be used, so your pattern would not even match accordingly ...

well, anyway, have a look at AS3 regex metacharacters ... that'll GREATLY improve your expression's readability and is much more robust...

i'd go with something like this, really:

var r:RegExp = /(?:http|https):\/\/\S*/g;
trace(str.replace(r, function (s:String,...rest):String { 
    return '<a href="' + s + '">' + s + '</a>' 
} ));

but the actual point, was the global flag ...

good luck then ... :)

greetz

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