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automagically turn a list of URLs into links?

I was gonna say just use the import and export option under IE's file menu, but that wouldnt fix your problem.

Hmmmmmm. I'll think on this and get back to you.
 
Paste them in Excel, should automatically make links out of them.

Edit: Wait, maybe I misunderstood. Clarification?

If this is a text file, then open it in NotePad. Do a search and replace...

replace http://
with
<http://

Save the text file.

Open MS Excel. File - Open - change file type to .txt file, then select your text file. An import wizard will pop up. Choose Delimited rather than fixed-width. Use the < character as the delimiter. That will separate the description and the URL, and put each in a separate cell. The cells with the URL's will now be links. Save the page as HTML. Then use your HTML editor and edit as needed.


 
Originally posted by: bamacre
The cells with the URL's will now be links
thanks for the reply. the URLs are not links after i separate them to different columns. now you that you've reminded me, i remember i did this before. i did what you had said, and added some more columns. one column had (a href=" and the others were like (/a)(br) and such. (not parenthesis, actually less than and greater than, but i had problems posting). i saved that as a .csv file, and then in notepad searched and replaced all the commas and quotes with nothing. it worked, but it's pain.

i'll do that, but just wondering if anyone has a quicker way of doing this? url autoparse in something?
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Post links in post here
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thanks! wow, so elegant, yet so, hilarious. who would have thunk it, anandtech forums saves the day again.

i like this solution, but am surprised that there is no "clean" way to do this.
 
use a parsing language, such as perl. Very easy to write a quick loop,

open FILEHANDLE $file;
while FILEHANDLE {
goo here to find http and make it a href="http and fin the last .??? and make it .???>link</a>
}
should be a 10 minute affair, and then store it so you can use it next time.
 
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