Hi there -- I am currently involved in trying to do two things:

1) take input text (in the form of a string parameter value to a script) of potentially email and web addresses and replace them with clickable alternatives.

i.e.
www.domain.com to be replaced/rewritten as <a href="/cgi-bin/script.pl?u=www.domain.com">www.domain.com</a> and mail@domain.com to be rewritten as <a href="mailto:mail@domain.com">mail@domain.com</a>

To to do the above I am working using both Email::Find and URI::Find although I have been using the s!(www.[^\s]+)!<a href="/cgi-bin/script.pl?u=$1">$1</a>!gi piece of code up to now for web addresses.

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Now the bit that is causing a bit of a headache is doing it the other way round.

i.e. converting the clickable links as shown above back to their text original. Do I need a wierd and wonderful regex and substitition piece of code or is there a module that will make my life easy? I need to be able to reproduce my html link format and not just have a simple target=_blank href?

Any ideas?

In reply to replacing clickable web and email addresses by markolus

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