Perl convert url string to link

I am looking for a way to find a url in a string and convert it to a link.

The url may be anywhere in the string (beginning, midd开发者_开发百科le, or the end).

Regex is preferred but CPAN modules are welcome.

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Most common solution is Regexp::Common (no pun intended). You need to use {-keep} version as shown below to keep the match (in $1, obviously)

use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

while (<>) {
    /$RE{URI}{HTTP}{-keep}/ and print "<A HREF="$1">My Link Name</A>";
} 

As is hopefully obvious, the above example only finds 1 link per line. Fixing for more is left as exercise for the user.

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Another option is Schwern's URI::Find. From POD example:

use CGI qw(escapeHTML);
use URI::Find;
my $finder = URI::Find->new(sub {
    my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
    return qq|<a href="$uri">$orig_uri</a>|;
});
$finder->find(\$text, \&escapeHTML);
print "<pre>$text</pre>";

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use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use utf8;
use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

my $string_with_url = <<'END_STRING';
This is an url to your question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4587876/perl-convert-url-string-to-link
END_STRING

say $string_with_url;

$string_with_url =~ s/($RE{URI}{HTTP})/get_link()/eg;

say $string_with_url;

sub get_link {
    return <<'END_LINK';
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}

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You can use Regexp::Common to find the string and then do a substitution to make it into a links. In the absence of any thing else I have used the URL as the link text.

    use Regexp::Common "URI";
    my $string="Some text containing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4587876/perl-convert-url-string-to-link in middle" ;

    $string =~    s( ($RE{URI}{HTTP}) )
                  (<a href="$1">$1</a>)gx  ;

    print $string ;