PERL Beginners - Parsing the hyperlink?

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Parsing the hyperlink?

Ron B

2004-03-29, 3:33 pm

I'm running my own version of bulletinboard and I have a little problem
with hyperlinks. I'd like to make them really work. So if posted message
includes http://blaablaablaa it would be a hyeprlink when reader opens
the message. Messages are stored in .html files so it's quite easy to
add <a href="http://blaablaablaa">http://blaablaablaa</a> to original
file by my cgi-parser.

I know it's something like:

if $message =~ /http:\/\//

But what else?

Wiggins D'Anconia

2004-03-29, 9:31 pm

Ron B wrote:
> I'm running my own version of bulletinboard and I have a little problem
> with hyperlinks. I'd like to make them really work. So if posted message
> includes http://blaablaablaa it would be a hyeprlink when reader opens
> the message. Messages are stored in .html files so it's quite easy to
> add <a href="http://blaablaablaa">http://blaablaablaa</a> to original
> file by my cgi-parser.
>
> I know it's something like:
>
> if $message =~ /http:\/\//
>
> But what else?
>
>

Scrap the regex, go with a module:

http://search.cpan.org/~rosch/URI-Find-0.13/
http://www.perladvent.org/2002/1st/

If you are interested in why I say you should skip the regex,

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Co...Rx/Recipe/59864

Thanks for making me look this up, time to install YAMod....

http://danconia.org

Ron B

2004-03-30, 4:38 am

Thanks.

I think I'll use regex this time, 'cause it fits the purpose good
enough. But it's really nice thing to know the module for the future
versions of my script.

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