Re: Converting URL's to hyperlinks.

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:22:25AM +0200, Lupus Michaelis wrote: > Sorry for the lag. > > Daevid Vincent a écrit : >>> OP ? >> >> Original Poster > > Thanks :) > >> Blah blah blah. >> I've used this code for about 6 years now and have yet to find emails that >> it didn't work for. If someone has some funky (whacky) RFC extremity, then >> so be it. That's their problem. Most people have NORMAL emails that follow >> the above. > I faced a professionnal issue because of a lazy programmer (a Delphi > component that was not aware about "Toto man"@example.com). What you > consider normal e'mail is a subset that is not interoperable. And I hate > that. > >> But you are correct, I have revised it to be a little more forgiving > of some >> allowed characters... >> >> preg_replace("/([\w\.\-_]+@[\w\.\-_]+\.\w{2,6})/i", > You can revised your regex to fit to the new kind of email. But it is > smarter to use the right tool (like filter_vars). > > Yeah, I know, I feel like some spanish windmill hunter. I'm not sure it's well known on this list, but one resource I use for regexps is: http://www.regexlib.com/ Paul -- Paul M. Foster