String Manipulation

[Sergio Orrego]

I have a text string which comes from a form containing the article text in
a knowledgebase. Sometimes people enter http links in their text however
when they show on the webpage they do not show as hyperlinks, because
obviously they don't gave the link tags around them.

What I'd like is to manipulate this text string so that wherever there is
http in it it put's the link tags around it. So what I'm really asking is,
how can I convert this string:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to http://blah-blah.com and you
will find lots of blah blah there.

Into this:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to <a
href="http://blah-blah.com">http://blah-blah.com</aand you will find lots
of blah blah there.

It needs to be versatile as they may enter more than one http link within
the text.

Any help appreciated!

Sergio.

[Evertjan.]

Sergio Orrego wrote on 05 jul 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

I have a text string which comes from a form containing the article
text in a knowledgebase. Sometimes people enter http links in their
text however when they show on the webpage they do not show as
hyperlinks, because obviously they don't gave the link tags around
them.

What I'd like is to manipulate this text string so that wherever there
is http in it it put's the link tags around it. So what I'm really
asking is, how can I convert this string:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to http://blah-blah.com and
you will find lots of blah blah there.

Into this:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to <a
href="http://blah-blah.com">http://blah-blah.com</aand you will find
lots of blah blah there.

It needs to be versatile as they may enter more than one http link
within the text.

That is easy, find seperate words commencing with http:// and convert those
words to the requested string and replace.

But how can you access "their text" in serverside ASP?
Where is "their text" located?

Please show what you have done sofar in ASP, either vbs or js.
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Mike Brind]

Sergio Orrego wrote:

I have a text string which comes from a form containing the article text in
a knowledgebase. Sometimes people enter http links in their text however
when they show on the webpage they do not show as hyperlinks, because
obviously they don't gave the link tags around them.

What I'd like is to manipulate this text string so that wherever there is
http in it it put's the link tags around it. So what I'm really asking is,
how can I convert this string:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to http://blah-blah.com and you
will find lots of blah blah there.

Into this:

And to get to the blah blah site please go to <a
href="http://blah-blah.com">http://blah-blah.com</aand you will find lots
of blah blah there.

It needs to be versatile as they may enter more than one http link within
the text.

Any help appreciated!

Try this pair of functions:

<%
function create_links(st rText)
strText = " " & strText
strText = ereg_replace(st rText, "(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[^ ,""\s<]*)",
"$1<a href=""$2"" target=""_blank "">$2</a>")
strText = ereg_replace(st rText, "(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ ,""\s<]*)",
"$1<a href=""http://$2"" target=""_blank "">$2</a>")
strText = ereg_replace(st rText, "(^|[\n
])([a-z0-9&\-_.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)", "$1<a
href=""mailto:$ 2@$3"">$2@$3</a>")
strText = right(strText, len(strText)-1)
create_links = strText
end function

function ereg_replace(st rOriginalString , strPattern, strReplacement)
' Function replaces pattern with replacement
dim objRegExp : set objRegExp = new RegExp
objRegExp.Patte rn = strPattern
objRegExp.Ignor eCase = True
objRegExp.Globa l = True
ereg_replace = objRegExp.repla ce(strOriginalS tring, strReplacement)
set objRegExp = nothing
end function
%>

article_text = create_links(Re quest.Form("art icle_text"))

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Mike Brind