"Rick Rothstein" wrote...
Interesting... here you are advocating using a method that might not be
guaranteed to work because it is simpler whereas in the "Isolate text in a
long url" thread you are advancing what appears to be an opposite position.

Who says I need to be consistent?

In corporate and governmental computing environments group policies
generally inhibit or actually prevent users from changing this sort of
basic configuration. So the odds are that my simplified approach in
this thread would almost always work. OTOH, unless the OP in the other
thread were parsing urls generated by his own company's web or
intranet server, s/he has no control over the possible urls s/he needs
to process. The odd there no longer favor simple approaches.

On a statistical basis, I'll claim my trade-off between simplicity and
robustness beats yours.

By the way, I completely agree with you on being against programs that drop
files on one's Desktop... my defense is that I was just answering the
question that was asked.<g

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