Ben Chase (04/25/2007)

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The forum doesn't dynamically parse links to ensure that they are converted to linkable values... using regex to do that would slow down the page processing. The text editor that you use to post new links does the determination to see if it's a new link. It's much like any MS Office program where if you paste the test it doesn't always recognize it as a link, but if you to go the end of the text that is a link and hit the enter key, it will re-parse it and mark it as a link. So, after you paste a link, just put the cursor at the end and hit the enter key and once the link is converted to a hyperlink, just backspace out the new line that was created.