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porsche944 Posts: 366 Joined: 3/6/2002 From: Regina Canada Status: offline	How do I make URL' s in text areas become a live link? - 10/9/2002 17:43:33 Every record in my database has a comments column (text area), some of the comments have a URL in them. How do I make these URL' s become a live link? < Message edited by porsche944 -- 10/8/2002 6:02:02 PM > _____________________________ ----------------------- Jason www.saskads.ca


Spooky Posts: 26606 Joined: 11/11/1998 From: Middle Earth Status: offline	RE: How do I make URL' s in text areas become a live link? - 10/9/2002 23:55:02 Heres one to try : http://www.aspemporium.com/aspEmporium/downloads/fileDependsEx.asp?eg=regexp_LinkURLs _____________________________ If you arent part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem ��k� Database / DRW help Check out the Tutorials for Frontpage Databases Forum FAQ' s Developers Edition Spooky Login User Registration and Management tool Personalized Frontpage Hosting (in reply to porsche944)


Spooky Posts: 26606 Joined: 11/11/1998 From: Middle Earth Status: offline	RE: How do I make URL' s in text areas become a live link? - 10/11/2002 22:11:59 Function LinkURLs(text) Set RE = New RegExp RE.IgnoreCase = true RE.Global = True RE.Pattern = " (http://[^ ])" LinkURLs = RE.Replace(text," <a href=' $1' >$1</a>" ) Set RE = Nothing End Function Response.write LinkURLs(" Outfront forums are at http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com!" ) < Message edited by Spooky* -- 10/11/2002 3:12:24 PM > _____________________________ If you arent part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem ��k� Database / DRW help Check out the Tutorials for Frontpage Databases Forum FAQ' s Developers Edition Spooky Login User Registration and Management tool Personalized Frontpage Hosting (in reply to porsche944)


khiser0001 Posts: 162 From: None Status: offline	RE: How do I make URL' s in text areas become a live link? - 11/5/2002 14:42:26 Spooky, This works great but what if the field already had a replace for the Chr(10) to <BR>? How can I combine these? I have tried a few things and will continue to search. Thanks (in reply to porsche944)


rdouglass Posts: 9280 From: Biddeford, ME USA Status: offline	RE: How do I make URL' s in text areas become a live link? - 11/6/2002 9:11:06 Have you tried this: Response.write Replace(LinkURLs(" Outfront forums are at http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com!" ), CHR(10), " <br>" ) *That' s assuming you' re using the function Spooky defined above... (in reply to porsche944)

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