I'm having a problem using the URI::Find module to process a mixture of plain text and HTML code.

The perldoc suggests using the following code:

 use CGI qw(escapeHTML);

  $text = "<pre>\n" . escapeHTML($text) . "</pre>\n";
  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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This works beautifully when I'm processing plain text input, however the callback doesn't have any context so it cannot avoid modifying the following badly:

<a href="http://foo.com/">foo</a>

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This is transformed even though I don't need it to be.

Short of trying to heuristically detect whether I'm processing HTML or plain text is there another module I could use to insert hyperlinks around URIs which are not already linked ?

Steve
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In reply to Using URI::Find with HTML by skx

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