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

If you need to show shorter link (only domain), but with same long URL, you can try my modification of Sam Hasler's code version posted above

function replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(text) {
    var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/([-A-Z0-9+&@#%?=~_|!:,.;]*)([-A-Z0-9+&@#%?\/=~_|!:,.;]*)[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig;
    return text.replace(exp, "$3");
}