Hi, can anyone help with this little problem I have?

I'm trying to automatically hyperlink url's from some plain text and I have a simple (but not perfect) regular expression that does this.

However when I try and use it with a url that wraps onto a new line, the url itself contains a new line and stops the browser going to the right page.

Allow me to demonstrate with this bit of code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $output = "";

open(FILE, "file.txt") || die "$!";
while(<FILE>)
{
  $output .= $_;
}
close FILE;

$output =~ s#(http://[^\!\"\£\$\^\*\(\)\{\}\[\]\;\:\'\@\,\<\> ]+)#\<a 
+href="$1" target="_blank"\>$1\</a\>#gis;

print $output;

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If file.txt has the following: 
The quick brown fox at http://fish.org would like to go home and http:
+//see
through.com/pants/foo/bar what there is to eat

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then my output is: 
The quick brown fox at <a href="http://fish.org" target="_blank">http:
+//fish.org</a> would like to go home and <a href="http://see
through.com" target="_blank">http://see
through.com</a> what there is to eat

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So my question is, is there any way i can remove that \n that is in the middle of the a href?

Many thanks!

In reply to Automatically hyperlinking text fails with newlines by Anonymous Monk

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