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Coldfusion 9 find web address in string and change it to html hyperlink
Coldfusion 9 find web address in text string and change it to html hyperlink.
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coldfusion findnocase web address in text string and replace with <a href="web address">web address</a>
Right, but are you searching for only "http://www.google.com" - or do you want to find any URL, like find "http://http://www.experts-exchange.com/", http://bing.com, etc... ? If you're trying to find any URL, you'll need to use a Regex. That's which not my area of expertise.
Not sure if you can modify the question to add topics. If not, submit a "Request for Attention" and ask a moderator to add the regex topic to the question.
Not sure if you can modify the question to add topics. If not, submit a "Request for Attention" and ask a moderator to add the regex topic to the question.
Ok. Unfortunately, regex's aren't my strong suit. I submitted a "Request for a Attention" and asked the mods to add that zone to your question to attract answers from a regex expert.
here is an example how to do it using the library
<cfscript>
function ActivateURL(string) {
var nextMatch = 1;
var objMatch = "";
var outstring = "";
var thisURL = "";
var thisLink = "";
var target = IIf(arrayLen(arguments) gte 2, "arguments[2]", DE(""));
var paragraph = IIf(arrayLen(arguments) gte 3, "arguments[3]", DE("false"));
do {
objMatch = REFindNoCase("(((https?:|ftp:|gopher:)\/\/)|(www\.|ftp\.))[-[:alnum:]\?%,\.\/&##!;@:=\+~_]+[A-Za-z0-9\/]", string, nextMatch, true);
if (objMatch.pos[1] GT nextMatch OR objMatch.pos[1] EQ nextMatch) {
outString = outString & Mid(String, nextMatch, objMatch.pos[1] - nextMatch);
} else {
outString = outString & Mid(String, nextMatch, Len(string));
}
nextMatch = objMatch.pos[1] + objMatch.len[1];
if (ArrayLen(objMatch.pos) GT 1) {
// If the preceding character is an @, assume this is an e-mail address
// (for addresses like admin@ftp.cdrom.com)
if (Compare(Mid(String, Max(objMatch.pos[1] - 1, 1), 1), "@") NEQ 0) {
thisURL = Mid(String, objMatch.pos[1], objMatch.len[1]);
thisLink = "<A HREF=""";
switch (LCase(Mid(String, objMatch.pos[2], objMatch.len[2]))) {
case "www.": {
thisLink = thisLink & "http://";
break;
}
case "ftp.": {
thisLink = thisLink & "ftp://";
break;
}
}
thisLink = thisLink & thisURL & """";
if (Len(Target) GT 0) {
thisLink = thisLink & " TARGET=""" & Target & """";
}
thisLink = thisLink & ">" & thisURL & "</A>";
outString = outString & thisLink;
// String = Replace(String, thisURL, thisLink);
// nextMatch = nextMatch + Len(thisURL);
} else {
outString = outString & Mid(String, objMatch.pos[1], objMatch.len[1]);
}
}
} while (nextMatch GT 0);
// Now turn e-mail addresses into mailto: links.
outString = REReplace(outString, "([[:alnum:]_\.\-]+@([[:alnum:]_\.\-]+\.)+[[:alpha:]]{2,4})", "<A HREF=""mailto:\1"">\1</A>", "ALL");
if (paragraph) {
outString = ParagraphFormat(outString);
}
return outString;
}
</cfscript>
<cfset str = "Hello friends, here i am doing a work where i am trying to www.google.com and checking and if i can open www.yahoo.com where www.ca.yahoo.com is opening or not. i found one website which is www.retailmenot.com for coupons when you shop online so was trying if i can use that www.website.com to use it here">
<cfoutput>#activateurl(str)#</cfoutput>
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