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craig1972

Jan 18 2004, 06:46 PM

Hi, I want to automatically convert links in my comments into clickable hyperlinks, for which I use Brad CHoate's MTMacro plugin. Here is what I have in my code, I guess I am missing something!

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When I rebuild with this, I get the following error:

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Building entry 'HELLO WORLD' failed: Build error in template 'Individual Entry Archive': Error in <MTEntryIfAllowComments> tag: Error in macro pattern: Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(( <-- HERE (f|ht){1}tp:/ at (eval 88) line 2, <DATA> line 252.

Is my pattern definition wrong? It is valid code from PHP!

Thanks.

markpasc

Jan 19 2004, 09:24 AM

You wrote:

m/(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)/

Try writing:

m/(((f|ht){1}tp:\/\/)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&\/\/=]+)/

That first slash in http:// is the end of the regex as far as the plugin's concerned; that's why it only lists through there in the error message.

craig1972

Jan 19 2004, 03:04 PM

Excellen, thanks! I also escaped the other characters except for numbers and characters and it works!

clio

Feb 3 2004, 05:15 PM

I tried the following:

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which doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

clio

Feb 3 2004, 05:33 PM

I tried this:

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and it turns all my links into gibberish.

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That's what ALL my links turned into. Sorry, I'm a little slow....

clio

Feb 3 2004, 05:59 PM

Some progress...

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Anybody?

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