Looking for a linkification tool

[eleman]

Here is my problem:

I need to paste tons and tons of URLs into html files, and make them links as well.

In other words, I have addresses like this:

[Select]

http://url1
http://url2
http://url3

and so on...

I need to make them look like this:

[Select]

<a href="http://url1">http://url1</a><br>
<a href="http://url2">http://url2</a><br>
<a href="http://url3">http://url3</a><br>

Can you think of a solution? I currently use a combination of excel and notepad, but I feel there must be a better way.

[skwire]

Here you go:  Linkifier

Looking for a linkification tool

[eleman]

Here you go:  Linkifier

-skwire (April 13, 2011, 08:09 AM)

Are you the greatest or what?

Thanks a zillion.

[ewemoa]

If you ever need to do something more customized...Macros in Notepad++, Emacs, etc. might be worth checking out:

Notepad++ Macros:

  http://npp-community.tuxfamily.org/documentation/notepad-user-manual/macros
  http://www.rarst.net/software/notepadpp-macro-for-repetitive/

Emacs Keyboard Macros:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros

[Ath]

Here you go:

-skwire (April 13, 2011, 08:09 AM)

Oh, it's him again

Or maybe Excel2HTML could help here (but it could need a small functional change)?

[Ath]

Are you the greatest or what?

-eleman (April 13, 2011, 08:12 AM)

Yep, he is

[cranioscopical]

Skwire, it's nice enough of you to try to help, but can't you speed it up a bit?
It's taking you almost haf an hour!

 

[skwire]

Skwire, it's nice enough of you to try to help, but can't you speed it up a bit?
It's taking you almost haf an hour!

-cranioscopical (April 13, 2011, 08:17 AM)

It would have been quicker but I had to take my daughters to school first.   Priorities, I know. 

[Renegade]

The general problem is solved with regular expressions. They take a little bit to learn, but they give you god-like power.

For a simple example like that, search for:

^(.+)$

And replace with:

<a href="\1">\1</a><br>

The problem is very common with many, many more variations. The general principles in regular expressions let you solve them all very quickly.

[ewemoa]

Perhaps the "replace with" portion of Renegade's post got mangled by the forums...

[Renegade]

Perhaps the "replace with" portion of Renegade's post got mangled by the forums...

-ewemoa (April 14, 2011, 05:19 PM)

Yes. It did. Here it is again with spaces inserted:

< a href = "\1" > \1 < /a >< br >

Hopefully that will turn out ok.

[ewemoa]

Seems like it came out fine

FWIW, wrapping in a code tag seems to provide some degree of protection:

Looking for a linkification tool

[jgpaiva]

Seems like it came out fine

FWIW, wrapping in a code tag seems to provide some degree of protection:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-ewemoa (April 15, 2011, 03:54 AM)

Another option is to use the "no BBC" tag (unrelated with the british broadcast, AFAIK ). There's a red button there, of you prefer you can write it directly: [nobbc][/nobbc]

ps: cool, it even works for the tag itself

[ewemoa]

Nice!  Thanks for pointing that out