How can I replace a word in a string to make it clickable

Question

How can I replace a word in a string and make it hyperlink.. For example : This is a car. I want to replace it with,
This is a car.

I am using

 str.replaceAll("car", "<a href=\"\">$1</a>" );

Is it correct regularexpression to make it hyperlink or not? Thank you..

Here's an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697084/handle-textview-link-click-in-my-android-app — Drakosha, Sep 17 '11 at 16:14
Have you considered using linkify? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/util/Linkify.html — Noel, Sep 17 '11 at 16:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '11 at 20:05

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answered Sep 17 '11 at 20:05

Edwin Evans

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