How Can I Linkify Urls Which Appear In Plain Text?

How can I linkify URLs which appear in plain text? For example, Today i want to share a link: www.google.com I would like to make 'www.google.com' clickable by putting

Solution 1:

You could use the regexp from Matthew O'Riordan's page to match an URL with or even without the protocol part:

/((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-_]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w_]*)#?(?:[.\!\/\\w]*))?)/

Solution 2:

You can use Linkify which is simple to use, it will surround the link in given selector in plain text to links.