Re: [boost] spaces in URIs

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.

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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