note 42562 deleted from function.preg-replace by aidan

Note Submitter: erik@pcdummy ---- This is my 1st regex and I like this one. I wrote it for my forum to filter all kind of http(s) urls. [php] echo filter("www.website.com") . "<br />"; // result: http://www.website.com echo filter("https://website.com:8000") . "<br />"; // result: https://website.com:8000 echo filter("forum.website.com/245/54") . "<br />"; // result: http://forum.websute.com/245/54 function filter( $message ) { return( preg_replace( "/((http)(s)?:\/\/)?([a-z]{3,}\.)?([\S]{3,}) (\.[a-z]{2,4})([\S]{1,})?/i", "<a href=\"http\\\\3://\\\\4\\\\5\\\\6\\\\7\">\\\\0</a>", $message ) ); } [/php] Hope someone can use it :) When finding a space in an url, the url will terminate. Space has to be %20 --> http://www.website.com/my%20directory