Regex not working as expected

[Chris Schults]

I have a regular expression that is suppose to truncate long URLs at 50
characters and add "...", but can't figure out why it is not working with a
particular URL.

Here is the regex:

$url =~s#>((?:http\|ftp\|file)://.{50}).+</a>#>$1...</a>#g;

And here is the problem URL:

<a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_
main.html?name=Toles&amp;date=09012006">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv
/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&amp;date=09012006</a>

Here is what the regex should return:

<a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_
main.html?name=Toles&amp;date=09012006">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv
/opinions/cartoonsand...</a>

Interestingly, the regex works fine on this modified version of the URL:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.h
tml?name=Toles

I think the digits might have something to do with it, but not sure.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Chris

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