Re: Prop: make URL's clickable

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:37:54AM -0700, Julian M Catchen wrote:
> Ok, sorry for the double post.  I should have looked at this longer before
> posting.  I would now like to suggest this as the regex:
> 
> ((ht|f)tps?://[^][:blank:]\\)>\r\n]+)
> 
> Try clicking on these URLs to see the mangled URLs:
> 
> (http://www.linux.org)
> <http://www.balsa.net>
> [http://www.slashdot.org]
> 
> All of them work properly with the above suggested regex.
> 

They also work with zvt dingus-clikin, but your regex breaks
http://host/foo)bar.html which is legal (although rare i supose :))
a proper regex would need ancorage and look-back/ahead no ?

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