#!/fellow/monks.pl I've been working on somewhat of an HTML generator from raw text files. One of the things I'd like to do is to translate any http://xxx comments in my text to a proper hyperlink... For example http://www.massyn.net should become <a href="http://www.massyn.net">http://www.massyn.net</a>. I was hoping to do it in the attached code, but it's not working entirely as I hoped. I fell in love with regular expressions, but this one is tricky... I can't get the (.+) to stop at the end... Any assistance is much appreciated. 


$text =~ s/http:\/\/(.+)\s/<a href=\"http:\/\/$1\">http:\/\/$1<\/a>/;

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In reply to regex to identify http:// in html by Massyn

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