Regex to convert URLs to HTML <a href> hyperlinks in Notepad++?

Question

I have a list of URLs in a text file I am trying to change to HTML, but I'm failing miserably.

My URLs are in this format:

http://mydomain.com/here-are-my-links.html

Does anybody know of a regex search/replace command I can run in Notepad++ to change my URL list to this format:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/here-are-my-links.html">here are my links</a>

Answer 1

Use the regex

(http://mydomain.com/(.*?)\.html)

and replace it with

<a href="\1">\2</a>

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If you want to change - into space you can do this

-(?=[^<>]*?</a>)

and replace it with