Script for tagging email addresses

[Andre Garzia]

You should enquote the href string or you will be unable to parse it with a
XML library later, also your code will not be XHTML compliant.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> First, I think you have a typo...
>
>
>>
>> E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz"wonderboy at orcon.net.nz
>> </a>¬
>>
> is missing the closing '>'
>
> E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz">wonderboy at orcon.net.nz
> </a>¬
>
> secondly, the href string does not have to be enclosed in quotes, so
>
> E-mail: <a href=Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz>wonderboy at orcon.net.nz</a>¬
> would work.
>
>
> ------- start code   --------
> -- assumes a masterList variable set to all lines
> --  1000 email addresses takes about 6 seconds on an older Mac
>
>   put masterList into emailLinesOnly
>   filter emailLinesOnly with "*@*"
>   set the itemDel to ":"
>
>   repeat for each line LNN in emailLinesOnly
>      put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of LNN & tab & 0  & cr after newLines
>      --  the 0 is a placeholder
>   end repeat
>   filter newLines without empty
>   split newLines using cr and tab
>   --dups have now been removed
>   --sequence does not matter
>   put the keys of newLines into emailAddrList
>   filter emailAddrList without empty
>   set the itemdel to tab
>   repeat for each line LNN in emailAddrList
>      replace LNN with ("<a href=" & LNN & ">" & LNN & "</a>") in masterList
>      --handles duplicate email addresses in one replace step
>   end repeat
>
>   put  masterList into msg
>
> ------- end code   --------
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>  anyone have an efficient script for tagging email address with links?
>>
>> let's say I have a chunk of plain text made up of one or more of these:
>>
>> And we want to replace them with links
>>
>>
>> Mr. Wonder Boy
>> 108 Webster Avenue
>> 1004  Mount Zena,
>> NEW ZEALAND
>> E-mail:  wonderboy at orcon.net.nz ¬
>>
>> Mr. Wonder Boy
>> 108 Webster Avenue
>> 1004  Mount Zena,
>> NEW ZEALAND
>> E-mail:  wonderboy at orcon.net.nz ¬
>>
>> becomes:
>>
>> Mr. Wonder Boy
>> 108 Webster Avenue
>> 1004  Mount Zena,
>> NEW ZEALAND
>> E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz"wonderboy at orcon.net.nz
>> </a>¬
>>
>> Mr. Wonder Boy
>> 108 Webster Avenue
>> 1004  Mount Zena,
>> NEW ZEALAND
>> E-mail: <a href="Mailto:wonderboy at orcon.net.nz"wonderboy at orcon.net.nz
>> </a>¬
>>
>> I was hoping to avoid replacetext and regEx as it will make it slow.
>>
>> anyone have this already wired up?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Sivakatirswami
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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