Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 12/20/05 17:11

> I'm writing a filter/parsing function for texts entered by users, and I've
> run into a problem...
> What I'm trying to do is to parse URLs of different sorts, ftp, http, mms,
> irc etc and format them as links, that part was real easy..
>
> The hard part is when a user has already entered a complete link..
> In short:
>
> http://www.server.tld/page.html
> should be converted to:
> <a href='http://www.server.tld/page.html'>http://www.server.tld/page.html</a>
>
> That part works fine, but if the user enters:
>
> <a href='http://www.server.tld/page.html'>click here</a>
>
> it all becomes a mess... Can somebody please make a suggestion on this?

Skip anything inside <> tags... then you're last line would come through
completely unchanged...

-philip

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