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

I searched on google for anything newer and ran across this one:

$('p').each(function(){
   $(this).html( $(this).html().replace(/((http|https|ftp):\/\/[\w?=&.\/-;#~%-]+(?![\w\s?&.\/;#~%"=-]*>))/g, '$1 ') );
});

demo: http://jsfiddle.net/kachibito/hEgvc/1/

Works really well for normal links.