On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, era eriksson wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:06:40 +0200 (MET DST), Ralph SOBEK
<sobek(_at_)irit(_dot_)fr> wrote:
> * ()\/http://[^ <>:)]*
> Any improvements?
Given the observation that URL:s very rarely end in punctuation, while
people sometimes write URL:s with punctuation after them, you might
want to require the last captured character to be alphabetic.
How about additional protocols such as ftp://, https://, etc?
(news, mailto, gopher?)
A good note here.
Whenever someone wants to type
...And it is described at http://www.foo.com/, and so blah blah...
Better to put
...And it is described at http://www.foo.com/ , and so blah blah...
This is better IMO, or for some people.
Punctuation doesn't belong on the URL unless it belongs on the URL.
Or as a last resort, just use HTML itself in e-mail.