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Parsing in this case means that the software used to run TBN analyzes your post to find urls (the address of the link) and automatically make them clickable.
It can also be used to describe analyzing something, but it usually describes a computer looking through data to find something that matches a set of rules. In this case, the rules are probbaly something like "Find a bunch of letters together with no spaces that begins with http:// or https://"
Aaron Z
just FWIW...V Bulletin uses PHP...so it is very simple to use a "preg_replace" array to format plain text into a hyperlink...
BTW...I'm still not sure how your definition of "parse" helped out the OP...hope he explains...:thumbsup: