Finding hyperlinks in dynamic text?

Question

Im retrieving tweets, so i have dynamic text, but i the tweets occasionally contain hyperlinks. I know you can find the hyperlinks in text. But every technique i have tried has failed, i think its because there searching through an array and then converting that to a string, but im baffled and my mind is hurting :S
Well heres my code:
function userTimelineResult(e:TwitterEvent):void
          for (var i in e.data)
                    twitterStatus = e.data[i];
                    trace("user tweets",twitterStatus.text);
                    var t:TextField = new TextField();// create a new text field
                    t.htmlText = twitterStatus.text
                    t.textColor = 0x000000;// set the text color
                    t.multiline = true;// allow it to be multiline
                    t.wordWrap = true;// allow it to have a word wrap
                    t.autoSize = "left";// set the autosize to left
                    t.width = 300;// give it a width of 300,
                    t.height = 30;// height values
                    t.x = 650 - 300;// x value
                    t.y = neextY;
                    neextY +=  t.height + 10;
                    addChild(t);

Answer 1

I take it you are using Flash as the methods have no type descriptors.
function userTimelineResult(e:TwitterEvent):void{
    for (var i in e.data){
        twitterStatus = e.data[i];
        trace("user tweets",twitterStatus.text);
        var t:TextField = new TextField();// create a new text field
        t.htmlText = twitterStatus.text
        if(hasHyperlinks(twitterStatus.text)){
            //do something here if it has hyperlinks
            //code
        }else{
            //text only
        t.textColor = 0x000000;// set the text color
        t.multiline = true;// allow it to be multiline
        t.wordWrap = true;// allow it to have a word wrap
        t.autoSize = "left";// set the autosize to left
        t.width = 300;// give it a width of 300,
        t.height = 30;// height values
        t.x = 650 - 300;// x value
        t.y = neextY;
        neextY +=  t.height + 10;
        addChild(t);
function hasHyperlinks(text:String):Boolean{
     return (text.indexOf('<a') >= 0 && text.indexOf('</a>') >= 0);