Script for tagging email addresses

[Sivakatirswami]

anyone have an efficient script for tagging email address with links?

let's say I have a chunk of plain text made up of one or more of these:

And we want to replace them with links


Mr. Wonder Boy
108 Webster Avenue
1004  Mount Zena,
NEW ZEALAND
E-mail:  wonderboy at orcon.net.nz ¬

Mr. Wonder Boy
108 Webster Avenue
1004  Mount Zena,
NEW ZEALAND
E-mail:  wonderboy at orcon.net.nz ¬

becomes:

Mr. Wonder Boy
108 Webster Avenue
1004  Mount Zena,
NEW ZEALAND
E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz"wonderboy at orcon.net.nz</a>¬

Mr. Wonder Boy
108 Webster Avenue
1004  Mount Zena,
NEW ZEALAND
E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz"wonderboy at orcon.net.nz</a>¬

I was hoping to avoid replacetext and regEx as it will make it slow.

anyone have this already wired up?

thanks!

Sivakatirswami