How to find and replace a URL in content

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angplange - 14 Sep 2007 17:00 GMT

See this page:

http://democraticpartyofgeorgia.org/events/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Week&sm=9&sd=9&s
y=2007

It's pushing the margins way out because some people are typing in long URLs
in their event description (See the meeting on September 10). I'd like to be
able to parse the event descrip and replace that long url with a hyperlink
where the long url is in the href, but what is linked is something link "see
link". Is there any way to do that? I can search for the instance of "http://"
of course, but can't seem to figure out a way to tell where the link ends....

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c_wigginton - 14 Sep 2007 21:15 GMT

Look at the ActivateURL udf at
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/activateurl

It's really more of a question on wrapping a really long word. The URL isn't
wrapping and that is what is pushing out your margin. You need the column to
wrap so that your column is a little more liquid.

Use the CF wrap() function.

<div id="breakwrap" style="width:150px;">

<cfoutput>#wrap("SamBrownbackRudyGiulianiMikeHuckabeeDuncanHunterJohnMcCainRonPa
ulMittRomneyTomTancredoFredDaltonThompson",25)#</cfoutput>
</div>

You can also go the CSS route, but the best solution I've found only works in
IE.
One method is to use CSS, the only problem is that it only works in IE

<div id="breakcss" style="width: 150px; word-wrap: break-word;">

SamBrownbackRudyGiulianiMikeHuckabeeDuncanHunterJohnMcCainRonPaulMittRomneyTomTa
ncredoFredDaltonThompson
</div>

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angplange - 18 Sep 2007 20:35 GMT

The UDF worked perfectly, thanks (I just modified it to display "this link" instead of the URL)...

Thank you!!

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