hi, i wrote a regular expression to match email adresses: $text = preg_replace("/([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]<>]*)([[:alnum:]-])/i", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $text);
unluckily also things like ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] were matched. so i rewrote it to: $text = preg_replace("/(?<!http:\/\/|ftp:\/\/)(([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]<>]*)([[:alnum:]-]))/i", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $text); but this gives me: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks for your help! :)