Replace URLs in a sentence with placeholders

Detects and replaces protocol-style links (e.g., http://, https://, ftp://) in a given sentence with unique placeholders like __URL1__, __URL2__, etc. This is useful for preparing text for translation or further processing while preserving original URLs.

Usage

replace_urls_with_placeholders(sentence)

Arguments

sentence

A character string potentially containing one or more URLs.

Value

A list with two elements:

text

The input sentence with URLs replaced by placeholders.

urls

A character vector of the extracted URLs.