I'd use a regular expression and capture the text. Depending on how serious you are about getting actual URL-friendly characters, something as simple as (heh): 

# $text contains the text to be 'urled'
$text=~ s/(www\.\S+)/<a href="http:\/\/$1">$a<\/a>/g;

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might do you just fine. (explanation: looks for "www" followed by a period and one or more non-whitespace characters. remembers all of that. $1 is where the memorized value goes. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader).

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In reply to Re: Returning data as a hyper link by arturo
in thread Returning data as a hyper link by SysAdm

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