Documentation for Templating a Link Field

I apologize if the issues queue is not the right place to post this but I couldnt find this anywhere and it took me some time to figure it out so I thought that others may find this useful. I was struggling with how to output this field as an active external link in my custom .tpl.php template. Here is how I ended up with the correct output:

print $node->field_my_fieldname[0] " target="_blank"> print $node->field_myfiledname[0]['view']

Hope that helps someone else.