Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:39:15 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 01:11:12, David Eppstein wrote: >On November 06, 1999 at 00:12:47, Tim Mirabile wrote: >> Trying to fix the URL is complicated and someone could always find a way to >> trip it up (http://www.icdchess.com/ccc], and just dropping the last character >> if it is punctuation is risky because in rare cases it might really be part of >> the URL ( http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate? ), or there might >> be more than one, as above. > >I think it is safe more often than not to drop all trailing non-alphanums. Can >you also recognize embedded email addresses? Anyway, this is a great >improvement. At least drop ".", since people sometimes end a sentence with a URL, but they'd be less likely to end a question with one. I don't know, this is hard. bruce
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