Replace http:// with < a href = http: . . . . . 1

[ednit]

I have text (articles) with links that I want to transform to html. I am having a hard time figuring out how to change a link like this:

http://example.com

To this:

<a href="

http://example.com">http://example.com</a>

I am looking for something like:

$article =~ s/http:. . /<a href=http. . . </a>/g;

But I have no idea how to create it.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[KevinADC]

since there can't be sapces in urls. your probably best to use the first space after the url as the end point of the match:

my $string = 'Some text with a url [URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com[/URL] in it';
$string =~ s|(http://[^ ]+)|<a href="$1">$1</a>|ig;
print $string;

 

[ednit]

Thank you very much!

That is what I was looking for & it works just as it should.