var options = { attributes: { rel: 'nofollow', title: 'click to open', }, className: '', format: { url: function (value) { return value } }, ignoreTags: ['a'], validate: { url: function (value) { return value; } } }; var str = `Benn was in Maine to observe a trial (long story). It seems he went to Sherburne NY, then to Maine, then to us, tyou hen to Sherburne, the to Michigan. Driving everywhere,. He wasn't going to stay here at all, but we talked him into eating lobsters with us. He stayed about an hour and then off he went.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>