That's great! Thank you fletcher. That saved me a lot of work. I think this 
is the beginning of a love story between grep and me :-)

[email protected] schrieb am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2021 um 20:44:02 
UTC+1:

> You can use Find/Replace to do this. Open the Find dialog from the Search 
> menu, check the "grep" box at the bottom which allows you to use regular 
> expressions, and use these patterns to start. The first find https:// 
> followed by the characters that are commonly found in URLs. The second 
> replaces that with an anchor tag with the found text \0 used twice.
>
> Find: https?://[a-zA-Z0-9/:\?&%=._\-+]+
> Replace: <a href="\0" target="_blank">\0</a>
>
> Find the first entry and if it needs replacing choose Replace and Find 
> Next or simply Find Next if it doesn't need replacing. Or, if you don't 
> have any links that are already formatted in the document you can do 
> Replace All. I have key shortcuts assigned to these so I can quickly work 
> through a document.
>
> The Pattern Playground on the Search menu is useful for playing around 
> with the find/replace patterns as well.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> [fletcher]
>
> On Feb 4, 2021, at 11:24 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> this is my first post to this group. I hope I can express myself clearly 
> ...
>
> Can I use BBEdit to automatically convert lots of web addresses (e.g. 
> https://test.com) in an html document into hyperlinks? Perhaps by 
> assigning a <a> tag with "Search and replace" so that something like this 
> arises: <a href="https://test.com"; target="_blank"> https://test.com </ a 
> >?
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