Parsing string as an anchor <A>

[Kirsten]

The users enters a string in an input box. When he clicks a button I want to
show (via document.write) an anchor if the string contaings "http://" or
"www."

For example: "This is the page I mentioned www.microsoft.com"
is converted to "This is the page I mentioned <a
href='www.microsoft.com'>www.microsoft.com</a>"

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Jon Spivey]

Hi Kirsten,

A regular expression will be able to do this for you. However you'll have to
google for the answer (should be easy enough to find) as I've never been
able to get my head around regular expressions