Posted by brendan on 09/13/05 14:35

Want to encode plain email addresses but NOT email addresses in hyperlinks
therefore regex match email addresses that dont have 'mailto:' at begining
.... however can't seem to quite get it to work.

My plain replace does

return eregi_replace( "([_\\.0-9a-z-]+)@([_\\.0-9a-z-]+)",
"<script>document.write('<a
href=\'mailto:'+'\\1'+'@'+'\\2'+'\'>'+'\\1'+'@'+'\\2'+'</a>');</script>",$st
ring );

But I can't work out how to exclude emails with mailto: at beginning hence:

return eregi_replace( "(^[^mailto\\:]+[_\\.0-9a-z-]+)@([_\\.0-9a-z-]+)",
"<script>document.write('<a
href=\'mailto:'+'\\1'+'@'+'\\2'+'\'>'+'\\1'+'@'+'\\2'+'</a>');</script>",$st
ring );

Any help?
brendan.

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