Hiya,

Basically, use square brackets to create links on PerlMonks. Hopefully this link should work exactly as I expect; it was produced by this code: 

[http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Formulation-of-Maxwell's-equ
+ations-in-special-relativity|this link]

[download]
The pipe symbol separates the link target (your "href" bit) and the link name. So, to summarize, it's not the apostrophe, it's the linking syntax. Use the "preview" option.

Incidentally (because you mentioned apostrophes), you don't pluralize "apostrophe" by putting "apostrophe-s" on the end. The correct plural is "apostrophes".... Yes, I'm way, way too twitchy about that, and it's nothing to do with being stuck in on New Year's Eve by my lonesome... *sob*.

Happy New Year!


davis
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In reply to Re: single apostrophe's ruining external linking by davis
in thread single apostrophe's ruining external linking by zentara

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