[Political Junkie Too]

I'll consider it, but it's not an embedded HTML link, it's the HTML of the thread I was posting to, with "yelling" appended to it.

Why would I do that, and why did prior posts have the same mistake, but with different post links?

Look at this:

Here is the post directly in the thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4075468/posts?page=44#44

Hover over the bullhorn link and you will see this: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4075468/yelling

Now, here is the same post from my posting history. Scrolling down to the actual post, the text has been changed to this:

https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:politicaljunkietoo/yelling

Any ideas about what's going on?

-PJ

[monkeyshine]

I see /yelling at the end of the original link/thread at post #44.
The other links seem to be fine.

[absalom01]

Any ideas about what's going on?

Couple of thoughts.

1) FreeRepublic's codebase is Perl, I think. Which gets crufty over time, and after a while, a tooth can break off of a gear and it skips a beat. Here's a Perl script that will turn any random text you want into a link to that forum post.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# Get input text string
print "Enter text string: ";
my $text = ;
chomp $text;

# Create HTML link my $url = "https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4075468/posts?page=44#44";
my $link = "$text";

# Print HTML link
print "HTML Link: $link\n";

To use this script, simply copy and paste it into a plain text file with a .pl extension and run it from the command line. When prompted, enter the text string you want to convert to an HTML link. The script will then create the link and print it to the console. You'll need a working Perl interpreter for this to work.

2) Alternatively, you fat-fingered it, and accidentally copied the word "yelling" to your clipboard when you originally made the link. I suspect this is the most likely reason.

[Delta 21]

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