Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I'm looking for a program or some code to help extract url's from > arbitrary file types. I imagine I could write such a program using bison, > but I'd like to use an existing program to reduce the amount of research > that I would have to do to figure out what is and isn't a valid URL.
urlview extracts url's from plain text files, and then starts an interactive menu to choose which one you want to view. It uses a single regexp to match them to begin with, which can be found in /etc/urlview/system.urlview, and looks like this (sorry about the >80-character line): (((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t<">\):] This might be a good starting point, even if you don't want to use the whole of urlview. Glyn -- And the face on every coin engraved The anarchists are all enslaved My own flag is forever waved By the grateful people I have saved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
