From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:55:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: make HTML links out of http/https URLs in changelogs
Message-ID: <86wt5oicdj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <4563777C.4050108@openvz.org>

>>>>> "Kir" == Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org> writes:

Kir> +	# make HTML links out of http(s) URLs
Kir> +	$line =~ s/(http[s]?:\/\/[^[:space:]\]\)]+)/<a href="\1">\1<\/a>/g;

Perl tip of the day:

On the right side of s///, you want $1, not \1, because \1 accidentally
works, but \10 (instead of the proper $10) will give you a control-h.  Ick.

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