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Convert links to hyperlinks in JS

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function replaceURLWithHTMLLinks(text) {
  // this looks for urls in html and makes them links
  // I apologize in advance
  var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig;
  return text.replace(exp, "<a href='$1'>$1</a>");
}