sounds if PEAR has another task ;). reclassified.

I'm planning to write a String_Manipulation (or something similiar, we'll probably fight about that... ;-)). Assigned to myself.

-Tal

In playing with this kind of thing in the past I've come up against the following problem: How do you handle URLs embedded in sentences which have contact with a full stop or commas?

"Have a look at www.examples.com/hi.html, it might help you out"

Baring in mind that some sites DO include a comma in the URL, for example any site powered by the Vignette content managment system - example:

http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-1489,00.html

The same goes for sentences where the URL is followed directly by a full stop.

The other thing that might be worth taking in to consideration is that many site designs will "break" if suitably long URLs are added (this is especially true for forums, which will be a major use for this function). The  best solution I have seen is vBulletin's, where long URLs are shortened to look like this:

http://example.com/lon...blah.html

Where the full URL (to which the above text is linked) looks like this:

http://example.com/long-url-here/blah/blah/blah.html

Obviously different sites would need different lengths of URL, so whether or not URLs were shortened like this (and to what extent they were shortened) should probably be specified by an optional second paramater of some sort.

Hope that helps,

Simon

dealing with trailing periods and commas on urls is pretty easy -- just ignore them if they're followed by a whitespace character. (it's not 100% reliable, of course, but in my experience is more often correct than including the trailing period or comma in that case.)

I developed such a function in php with extensive exceptions checking, some months ago.

If it would help you, you might like to eyeball it. It may give you valuable and time-saving clues to coding it as a C++ function.

Please send me an email address to deliver you part of my script library as an attachment.

How about posting a link to this source online?

Please file PEAR/PECL related issues in the PEAR/PECL bug 
tracker.

Done: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9789

Not sure setting the Status to "bogus" was a very nice way of dealing with this feature request, though. (Also: The original request was for PHP itself to include this function! :)

this has nothing to do with PEAR, bjori

I'm confused. You set the status to "bogus" with the comment:

--8<--
Please file PEAR/PECL related issues in the PEAR/PECL bug 
tracker.
--8<--

What did you mean if not that this bug report belongs in the PEAR bug system? Apologies for the confusion.