Re: viewing URLs (muttils or lynx?)

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, March 26 at 09:59 AM, quoth Robert Svoboda:
> * Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-03-26 07:40]:
> > On the thought that just parsing <a> links would be 
> > sufficient, I  whipped up a little perl script based on what 
> > I've done for  extract_url.pl. I call this little script 
> > "tagurl.pl". I'm not  completely satisfied with it yet, but 
> > it's a start. What do you think?
>
> I tried to write it myself (bash) but I'm not good at it so it 
> takes its time. Your code seems to do much better job than 
> mine.

Well, that's perl for you: blazing fast at text manipulation. I'm a 
bit of a bash wizard m'self, but getting great performance out of bash 
at that sort of thing requires using bash's built-in functions, which 
are somewhat limited (e.g. ${variable//search/replace}).

> BTW, there is semicolon missing at the end of line 56.

Ah, right! Good catch. :)

I also noticed that my getopts call was missing an 's' at the end, so 
argument handling was completely broken. Attached is a fixed version.

> > OR as a $display_filter  that extracts/tags links from plaintext.
>
> I can confirm that this works. Great work Kyle. Thanks a lot 
> for sharing it.

Excellent! :)

~Kyle
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