Fixed it <a href="http://\1";>\1</a>, not bad for an amateur!!!
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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
