How about using URI::Find instead? No point re-solving that problem. It even includes an example of what you're trying to do: 
Wrap each URI found in an HTML anchor. 

  my $finder = URI::Find->new(
                              sub {
                                  my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
                                  return qq|<a href="$uri">$orig_uri</
+a>|;
                              });
  $finder->find(\$text);

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Although that code is wrong. He needs to HTML-entitize the href parameter. Bleh. Here's the corrected code: 
use CGI qw(escapeHTML);
  my $finder = URI::Find->new(
                              sub {
                                  my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
                                  $_ = escapeHTML("$_") for $uri, $ori
+g_uri;
                                  return qq|<a href="$uri">$orig_uri</
+a>|;
                              });
  $finder->find(\$text);

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I just sent the author a bug report.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: url to html regex problem by merlyn
in thread url to html regex problem by Anonymous Monk

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