Richard, thank you so much. Your example worked in my quick test.
Now will try with multiple occurrences of urls in the same string,
etc...
Thanks again,
John
On Aug 24, 11:26 am, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 August 2010 16:23, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 22 August 2010 14:52, johnwerry <john.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Trying to get the following gsub call working to replace text of url
> >> with link of the url. I know I have to add slashes, but I am
> >> apparently missing some, somewhere as I can never get it to not error
> >> out.
>
> >> txt = txt.gsub(/\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|
> >> ([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))/,'<a href="#{0}">#{0}</a>');
>
> >> Here is the "add slashes" version of the first parameter, but this
> >> errors out at runtime. What am I missing?
>
> >> /\\b(([\\w-] ://?|www[.])[^\\s()<>] (?:\\([\\w\\d] \\)|([^[:punct:]\
> >> \s]|/)))/
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> >http://pastebin.com/0E5MDkk2is the same, but hopefully a little easier to
> >read.
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>
> Can you try ...
>
> result =
> subject.replace(/\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[\-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/img,
> '<a href="$&">$&</a>');
>
> and pastebinhttp://pastebin.com/Ytc4KRT0
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