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[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> But it would be nice to exclude those end-of-sentence punctuation from
> the capture output. I tried the following minimalistic expression just
> to try and get the trailing condition right I'm not able to
> distinguish between a dot that is part of the URL and a period at the
> end.

Got it. I just needed to negate the end-of-sentence punctuation character class.

This seems to be handling all cases properly:

  $expr = '([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,10}://[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+[\p{L}0-9"!#$%&\\()+,\\./:;=?\\@\\\\^_{}~-]*)[^,\\.?!:;"\'\\s]';

Thanks,
Mike

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