I'm writing a simple script to view Twitter tweets but I'm having trouble converting URLs (http://...) into HTML anchors.

I need a pure Perl solution, I can't use a package, it must be a reg exp.

Here's what I have so far, clearly not working. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$tweet = 'Mayor Nickels leads the pack as Seattle campaign contributio
+ns break $1 million mark http://tinyurl.com/ckpxmu #seattle #seattlen
+ews';
$_ = $tweet;
s/(http.*)/<a href=\"\1\">\1<\/a>/;
print $_ . "\n";

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I need the regular expression to stop when it hits white space, in this example not including the hashtags (#seattle #seattlenews).

I just don't know how to do that. Needless to say my regular expression knowledge is limited to only the most basic operations.

Thanks,
Keith

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