Returning data as a hyper link

SysAdm has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Need to read a data file and return all www. as a hyper-link...

I figured the email one would be the same code just search for different character - @

My only problem is how would you read in the www.string and display it as a hyper-link...??? Could you use the $_ to display the found string????

___________SysAdm

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Re: Returning data as a hyper link by lhoward (Vicar) on Mar 13, 2001 at 09:39 UTC
The HTML::FromText module is designed to convert flat text files to HTML. Among its options are: urls - Convert URLs to links email - Convert email addresses to links	[reply]
Re: Returning data as a hyper link by $code or die (Deacon) on Mar 13, 2001 at 09:54 UTC
Apart from the advice you have already had about URLs, don't write a regular expression to find email addresses - use Email::Find Update: lhoward's advice is good. Be careful if your input is HTML because your regular expression will display the link twice if it's html that already has links. e.g.: `<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org">http://www.perlmonks.org</a>` [download] With arturo's regular expression, you will get: `<a href="http://<a href="www.perlmonks.org"></a>">http://<a href="www. +perlmonks.org"></a></a>` [download] or something like that. `$ perldoc perldoc`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Returning data as a hyper link by arturo (Vicar) on Mar 13, 2001 at 04:46 UTC
I'd use a regular expression and capture the text. Depending on how serious you are about getting actual URL-friendly characters, something as simple as (heh): `# $text contains the text to be 'urled' $text=~ s/(www\.\S+)/<a href="http:\/\/$1">$a<\/a>/g;` [download] might do you just fine. (explanation: looks for "www" followed by a period and one or more non-whitespace characters. remembers all of that. $1 is where the memorized value goes. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader). search keywords: regular, expression, memory Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Returning data as a hyper link by Desdinova (Friar) on Mar 13, 2001 at 09:32 UTC
I dont what your data source is but if there is any chance it might include things like space you hvae to encode those properly as well More info can be found here - Insert URL Encoding	[reply]