What a huge blessing, thank you very my Alex!!!
"URL to HREF"
Find: \b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]
\s]|/)))
Replace: <a href="http://\1";>\1</a>
"Email to HREF"
Find: ((?:[\w\-\.]+)@(?:(\[([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([\w\-]+\.)
+)([a-zA-Z]{2,4})))
Replace: <a href="mailto:\1";>\1</a>
On May 17, 6:30 pm, Alex Satrapa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18/05/2011, at 08:48 , Bo von Hohenlohe wrote:
>
> > Here is a sample
> > schedulehttp://www.robertburridge.com/Workshops/schedule_sample.htmlthat is
> > basic html, next step would be to make the email and web addresses active
> > hyperlinks.
>
> Working with John Gruber's regex, I end up with something that looks like
> this:
>
> Find: \b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))
> Replace: <a href="\1">\1</a>
>
> Tick the box for "Grep" and "Wrap around", click "Replace All":
>
> > October 8-12, 2012<BR>
> > <B>Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting</B><BR>
> > Vancouver Island Art Workshops<BR>
> > Nanaimo, British Columbia,Canada<BR>
> > Contact Mary Stewart, 250-716-1440<BR>
> > [email protected]<BR>
> > <a
> > href="http://www.VancouverIslandArtWorkshops.com";>http://www.VancouverIslandArtWorkshops.com</a><BR>
> > <BR>
> > November 2-4, 2012<BR>
> > <B>Create Today with Wild Abandon - No Brushes!</B><BR>
> > 3-day Workshop (Friday-Sunday)<BR>
> > San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA<BR>
> > Contact [email protected] (805) 543-8562 ext. 14<BR>
> > <a href="www.sloartcenter.org">www.sloartcenter.org</a><BR>
> > <BR>
>
> Then of course I realised that John Gruber's regex is for URL detection.
> D'oh! So off to regexlib.com to find an email regex:
>
> ^([\w\-\.]+)@((\[([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([\w\-]+\.)+)([a-zA-Z]{2,4
> }))$
>
> This email regex is appropriated
> fromhttp://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=88
>
> So Find & Replace gets us this (note I've wrapped the entire expression in
> brackets and removed the ^ and $ since I'm trying to *detect* rather than
> *validate* email addresses):
>
> Find:
> ((?:[\w\-\.]+)@(?:(\[([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([\w\-]+\.)+)([a-zA-Z]
> {2,4})))
> Replace: <a href="email:\1">\1</a>
>
> Tick the box for "Grep" and "Wrap around", click "Replace All":
>
> > October 8-12, 2012<BR>
> > <B>Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting</B><BR>
> > Vancouver Island Art Workshops<BR>
> > Nanaimo, British Columbia,Canada<BR>
> > Contact Mary Stewart, 250-716-1440<BR>
> > <a href="email:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><BR>
> > <a
> > href="http://www.VancouverIslandArtWorkshops.com";>http://www.VancouverIslandArtWorkshops.com</a><BR>
> > <BR>
> > November 2-4, 2012<BR>
> > <B>Create Today with Wild Abandon - No Brushes!</B><BR>
> > 3-day Workshop (Friday-Sunday)<BR>
> > San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA<BR>
> > Contact <a href="email:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
> > (805) 543-8562 ext. 14<BR>
> > <a href="www.sloartcenter.org">www.sloartcenter.org</a><BR>
> > <BR>
>
> As for automating this, if I have to start writing any kind of script at all
> I'll just do the whole thing in Perl (and use that Perl script as a filter in
> BBEdit). I'll leave it up to the AppleScript guys on the list to suggest a
> script that will automate this Find & Replace in BBEdit (searching the list
> archives might uncover something interesting).
>
> You can get part way to automation by saving those Find/Replace dialog
> options - select "Save…" in the little "g" menu, to the left of the
> "Previous" button. I've saved them as "URL to HREF" and "Email to HREF"
> respectively. This reduces the process of replacing web sites and email
> addresses to:
> - ⌘F (open the Find/Replace dialog)
> - Select "URL to HREF" from "g" menu
> - Click "Replace All"
> - Select "Email to HREF" from "g" menu
> - Click "Replace All"
>
> Finally, remember that these regexes will only catch about 99% of the URLs.
> You'll still need to proof read the HTML page in a browser to make sure they
> worked properly!
>
> Hope this helps
> Alex
>
> PS: If you're interested in learning how those regular expressions work and
> how to craft your own, I recommend Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, "Mastering Regular
> Expressions" -http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
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