| Subject: | Email linking with L<> |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:33:15 +0200 |
| To: | <bug-Pod-HtmlEasy [...] rt.cpan.org> |
| From: | "Wieselquist William" <William.Wieselquist [...] psi.ch> |
Greetings,
I have one bug to report and also a related feature request for the
Pod::HtmlEasy package.
Bug
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The regular expression which matches email addresses
($Pod::HtmlEasy::Parser::MAIL_RE) does not allow for a '.' in the first
part of the email address before the @. Thus my email address
william.wieselquist@psi.ch gets transformed to the html:
william.<a href='mailto:wieselquist@psi.ch'>wieselquist@psi.ch</a>
I would recommend the [\w-]+ in # some word chars be changed to [\w\.-]
as shown below.
Readonly::Scalar my $MAIL_RE => qr{
( # grab all of this
[\w-\.]+ # some word chars with '-' included foo
\0? # possible NUL escape
\@ # literal '@' @
[\w\\-]+ # another word bar
(?: # non-grabbing pattern
\. # literal '.' .
[\w\-\.]+# that word stuff stuff
\. # another literal '.' .
[\w\-]+ # another word and
| # or
\. # literal '.' .
[\w\-]+ # word nonsense
| # or empty?
) # end of non-grab
) # end of grab
}smx; # [6062]
Feature
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The Pod::Html package allows one to specify the location of other html
documents on the system (via htmlroot and htmldir options). This
feature would be very useful in Pod::HtmlEasy so that L<My::Module>
links can get the proper prefix, with the prefix specified at
documentation generation time instead of hard-coded into the POD.
Thanks for your time and keep up the good work.
Best Regards,
William Wieselquist
William Wieselquist, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Reactor Physics and System Behaviour (LRS)
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William Wieselquist OVGA/311
5232 Villigen PSI
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Tel +41 056 310 2710
Fax +41 056 310 4141
william.wieselquist@psi.ch