Re: changing existing text to a link

Why would you want to use CGI.pm to modify text? You already find the data you need with a regex, so, why don't you just use a substitution? You already did the hardest part.

Using CGI.pm to do substitutions is like using an elephant to write a letter.

Abigail

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Re: Re: changing existing text to a link by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 04, 2003 at 10:53 UTC
The NelliePen Society J.P. Snodgrass. President. To whom it may concern. We wish to protest in the strongest terms, this flagrant, un-called for, and clearly prejudicial use of supposedly humourous analogies with total disregard for those .... "Come back Nellie.....what is the matte....". "Ellie? Ellie! You didn't let Nellie have the left over spinach did you?........." "Oh dear".. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller	[reply]

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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 04, 2003 at 10:53 UTC

The NelliePen Society

J.P. Snodgrass. President.

To whom it may concern.

We wish to protest in the strongest terms, this flagrant, un-called for, and clearly prejudicial use of supposedly humourous analogies with total disregard for those ....

"Come back Nellie.....what is the matte....".

"Ellie? Ellie! You didn't let Nellie have the left over spinach did you?........."

"Oh dear"..

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller

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