Regex convert URL's to link if NOT wrapped in quotes

Hi there,
Regular expressions have always been very difficult for me to understand. I currently have a regular expression to search a long string and replace URL's with HTML code to convert to a link. So...
http://java.sun.com would become:
<a href="http://java.sun.com">http://java.sun.com</a>It works EXCELLENT, however, I allow users to enter in HTML code for images using the following...
<img src="http://www.url.to.image.com/image.gif">But, my regex replaces the URL with the link code above. To fix this, I want to simply only replace URL's with the HTML a href code if the URL is NOT surrounded by quotes. As I said above, I'm not good with regular expressions. The one I'm currenlty using was found on a forum too. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Thanks very much, I appreciate it!

scoobasteve1982 wrote:
Can you or anyone else suggest a good place to learn more about regex...something that starts with the VERY BASICS? Thanks again!~Sure.
The website regular-expressions.info has a chapter about Java regex:
[http://www.regular-expressions.info/java.html]
But I recommend you to have a look at the other sections of that site too.
And Sun has a tutorial about their own regex-api, of course:
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/regex/]
May the dark regex force be with you!
; )

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