Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html

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Hi Grobu,

On 28/11/15 15:07, Grobu wrote:
> Is it safe to assume that all the relative (cross) links take one of
> the following forms? :
>
>     http://www.aeva.asn.au/forums/forum_posts.asp
>     www.aeva.asn.au/forums/forum_posts.asp
>     /forums/forum_posts.asp
>     /forum_posts.asp (are you really sure about this one?)
>
> If so, and if your goal boils down to converting all instances of old
> style URLs to new style ones regardless of the context where they
> appear, why would a regex fail to meet your needs?

I'm actually not discounting anything and as I mentioned, I've already
used some regex to extract the properly-formed URLs (those starting with
http://).  I was fortunately able to find some example regex that I
could figure out enough to tweak for my purpose.  Unfortunately, my
small brain hurts whenever I try and understand what a piece of regex is
doing and I don't like having bits in my code that hurt my brain. 

BTW, that's not meant to be an invitation to someone to produce some
regex for me, if I can't find any other way of doing it, I'll try and
create my own regex and come back here if I can't get that working.

Cheers,

-- 
Rob Hills
Waikiki, Western Australia

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Find relative url in mixed text/html Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-11-28 10:35 +0800
  Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-27 21:11 -0800
    Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-11-29 00:25 +0800
    Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-28 18:04 +0100
    Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-11-29 01:40 +0800
      Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-28 10:10 -0800
  Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-11-28 08:07 +0100
    Re: Find relative url in mixed text/html Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-11-29 01:44 +0800

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