On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:54 AM, John Musbach wrote:

> Very neat trick, looking at your fortune file, what does the following
> line do? Grab text from a web resource?
> 
> (?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

It looks like a regex to parse urls into components. Similar to the one that 
the DaringFireball page has been hosting:

http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls

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        Karl Kuehn
                
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