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Description	This macro will replace the first URL in the selected text with the URL converted to an HTML link.
Language	C# (.Net)
Minimum Version	5.8.5+
Created By	Thomas Malloch (BFS)
Contributors	-
Date Created	Jan 26, 2021
Date Last Modified	Jan 26, 2021

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using System; using System.Web; using System.Collections.Generic; // The 'text' parameter will contain the text from the: // - Current Clipboard when run by HotKey // - History Item when run from the History Menu // The returned string will be: // - Placed directly on the Clipboard when run as a Macro // - Ignored by ClipboardFusion if it is 'null' // - Passed along to the next action in a Trigger (null changed to an empty string) public static class ClipboardFusionHelper { public static string ProcessText(string text) { // Get the highlighted text text = BFS.Clipboard.CopyText(); // Search the Clipboard History for a URL for(int i = 0; i < BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryItemCount(); i++) { // If there's no text, it can't be a url if(!BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryIndexContainsText(i)) continue; // See if Uri.TryCreate can succeed string history = BFS.ClipboardFusion.GetHistoryText(i); Uri result; if((history.IndexOf("http") != 0) || (!Uri.TryCreate(history, UriKind.Absolute, out result))) continue; // Paste what we found BFS.Clipboard.PasteText("<a href=\"" + history + "\">" + HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(text) + "</a>"); break; } return null; } }