From: Philippe Lalande (plalande-boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-09 10:06:14


Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden]) wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>
> >Could any of the regex experts help us out? As Dave says, what we need
> >is a regular expression that will detect that a URL has a space in it.
>
> After several attempts, I've come with
>
> grep "href=\"[^\" ]* .*\"" `find ~/Work/boost -name "*.htm"`
>
> which seems to work, producing the attached list.

[attached list skipped]

You should also check for the 'name' attribute (or/and 'id' if it is used).
Only fixing the 'href' will result in broken links.

Philippe