Making links clickable in Javascript?

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Published on 2010-03-29T05:52:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 5:53 UTC
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Is there an simple way of turning a string from

Then go to http:/example.com/ and foo the bar!

into

Then go to <a href="http://example.com">example.com</a> and foo the bar!

in Javascript within an existing HTML page?

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