Regexp.escape the href values

Rails
1

Hi All,

I want the skip the href values which is inside , while doing rake

task. but i am getting out put like this.

my text = rails

Rails is the keyword, but if already got linked, it should not link
again.

but i am getting output like this.

<a href=“Rails”>rails

its linking inside again.

for this i have used the Regexp.escape. but its not working as expected.

def match_string(s)
/(#{Regexp.escape(s)})(?!([^(<a)]*</a>)|(/)|\w)/
end

So, Please advise me, if anyone knows ASAP.

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On May 27, 7:45 am, Vidya V. [email protected]
wrote:

end

This rather muddled. You haven’t really explained what the input is,
what the expected output is and exactly what that regular expression
is trying to match

Fred

3

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your reply.

My input will be:

 "The lion is the largest African carnivore. It is a sandy to tawny

coloured cat with white under parts on which females often retain
rosettes and spots characteristic of younger animal.then the last one is
test

The keywords are : lion, animals, african, Tiger.

So my expected output are , when i am running the task , should be
linked the keywords with href. but except which is in href already.

Expected Output:

"The lion is the largest African carnivore. It is a sandy to tawny
coloured cat with white under parts on which females often retain
rosettes and spots characteristic of younger animal.then the last one is test

But right now i am getting like:

“The lion is the largest African carnivore. It is a sandy to tawny
coloured cat with white under parts on which females often retain
rosettes and spots characteristic of younger animal.then the last one is <a href=”Tiger">test

Note: See i am getting link twice , inside the href again and again.

it should not link , which is inside the href.

I hope u understand now.

Frederick C. wrote:

On May 27, 7:45�am, Vidya V. [email protected]
wrote:

�end

This rather muddled. You haven’t really explained what the input is,
what the expected output is and exactly what that regular expression
is trying to match

Fred

4

Linker should ignore keywords inside of hyperlinks

Example:

Tiger is a animal.

This text should be not link which is inside link tag.

Tiger is a animal.

But right now i am getting like

<a href=“animalAnimal”>Tiger is a animal.

Does it make sense?

Frederick C. wrote:

On 27 May 2008, at 10:36, Vidya V. wrote:

it should not link , which is inside the href.

that makes sense, what doesn’t make any sense is your regular
expression. What were you trying to make it do?

Fred

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On 27 May 2008, at 17:16, Vidya V. wrote:

But right now i am getting like

<a href=“animalAnimal”>Tiger is a animal.

I got that first time round. What i don’t know is how you’re trying to
use that regular expression. a little more of your code would clarify
matters.

Fred

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On 27 May 2008, at 10:36, Vidya V. wrote:

it should not link , which is inside the href.

that makes sense, what doesn’t make any sense is your regular
expression. What were you trying to make it do?

Fred