How to get the url string from a text javascript

Question

How can I get the url string from a generated text. For example I have generated a text

text =  "This is my sample text try http:\/\/sample.com\/23411";

convertedString = "This is my sample text try http://sample.com/23411";

I want to do this

var disp = "";

disp += "This is my sample text try";
disp += "<a href = 'http://sample.com/23411'>http://sample.com/23411</a>";

result

This is my sample text try http://sample.com/23411

Joseph Silber · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-17 05:33:34Z

2

Easiest way would be to use a regex:

disp = text.replace(/(http:\/\/[^ ]+)/, "<a href='$1'>$1</a>");

answered Jan 17, 2012 at 5:33

Joseph Silber

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3 Comments

Great! but how can I get the first text? The "This is my sample text try"? Sorry for just a simple question for you but I'm just new to Javascript.

@RobinCarloCatacutan - Did you click on that link I posted?

I didn't see that before I refresh. Tnx got to try.