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The Problem With URLs

URLs are simple things. Or so you’d think. Let’s say you wanted to detect an URL in a block of text and convert it into a bona fide hyperlink. No problem, right? Visit my website at http://www.example.com, it’s awesome! To locate the URL in

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Excluding Matches With Regular Expressions

Here’s an interesting regex problem: I seem to have stumbled upon a puzzle that evidently is not new, but for which no (simple) solution has yet been found. I am trying to find a way to exclude an entire word from a regular expression search. The regular expression should