如何<a>使用Notepad ++查找/替换功能</a>包装链接<a>？</a>

Question

I have a text document with raw links (not wrapped) and I would like to wrap them in HTML anchor tags.

Link example:

http://example.com/images/my-image.jpg

Desired output:

<a href="http://example.com/images/my-image.jpg">http://example.com/images/my-image.jpg</a>

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I can FIND the links in Notepad++ using the following RegEx:

[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,4}\b(\/[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)?(\?([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)|)

However, the REPLACE string I'm trying is not working for some reason:

<a href="\1">\1</a>

How can I do this with notepad++?

Answer 1

You need to replace with the backreference to the whole match:

<a href="$&">$&</a>

Or

<a href="$0">$0</a>

Here, the $0 and $& "insert" the text that is matched by the whole regular expression, not just by some capturing groups.