Qt QRegExp replace all URLs in a string with <a> Anchored URLs

Question

Given a QString that can have an unknown number of URL's in it...

How can I use QRegExp to wrap HTML anchor tags around only the URL portions (with the URL itself as clickable label).

e.g.

input: "this is www.cnn.com, that is https://www.mybank.com"

output: "this is <a href="www.cnn.com">www.cnn.com</a>, that is <a href="https://www.mybank.com">https://www.mybank.com</a>

Answer 1

ok. got it.

QRegExp regExp("((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\\/\\/)?)(?:[\\-;:&=\\+\\$,\\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9\\.\\-]+|(?:www\\.|[\\-;:&=\\+\\$,\\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9\\.\\-]+)((?:\\/[\\+~%\\/\\.\\w\\-]*)?\\??(?:[\\-\\+=&;%@\\.\\w]*)#?(?:[\\.\\!\\/\\\\\\w]*))?)");

QString result = myOriginalString.replace(regExp, "<a href='\\1'>\\1</a>" );

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