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Topic: Add more ways to write URLs in (U)BBcode

Posted By: Jagoop
Subject: Add more ways to write URLs in (U)BBcode
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 10:02pm

Web Wiz Forum version 10.17 recognizes the following way of writing an URL in (U)BBcode:

[URL=http://www.google.com/][/URL]

But it does not support the other common way of writing an URL (with "):

[URL="http://www.google.com/"][/URL]

I would suggest updating the RegExp in functions_format_post.asp from:

\[URL=\s*([^\]]+)\s*\]\s*([^\]]+)\s*\[\/URL\]

To:

\[URL=\s*"?([^\]]+)"?\s*\]\s*([^\]]+)\s*\[\/URL\]

In order to support both ways of writing URLs.

Replies:

Posted By: Jagoop
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 10:24pm

I just played around with the RegExp a bit more, and came up with a better solution:

.Pattern = "\[URL=\s*\s*""?\s*([^\]]+)\s*""?\s*\s*\]\s*([^\]]+)\s*\[\/URL\]"

This pattern also handles the (in my experience) rather common issue with users copying an URL and accidentally include one or more whitespace characters before or after the URL.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 8:43am

Thanks Jagoop, will look at adding this in the next release.

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