Detect emails in a text and surrond it with the tag

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greetings all I have a text that may contains emails and I want to detect any email occurrence and surround it with the < a > tag ex:

[email protected]
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"> [email protected] </a>

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-for-validating-email-addresses — McDowell, Dec 30 '10 at 09:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '10 at 09:46

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Using the regex from regular-expression.info you can do:

text = text.replaceAll("(?i)\\b([A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4})\\b",
                       "<a href=\"mailto:$1\"> $1 </a>");

answered Dec 30 '10 at 09:46

codaddict

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It should be noted that this expression will not pick up all valid e-mail addresses (e.g. `\@Joe\ [email protected]`); whether you use it depends on how tolerant of errors you can be. – McDowell Dec 30 '10 at 10:48

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