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 had to do the opposite, and make html links into just the URL, but I modified your regex and it works like a charm, thanks :)

var exp = /.*<\/a>/ig;

source = source.replace(exp,"$1");