regex to find url in a text

Question

I have to find the first url in the text with a regular expression:

for example:

I love this website:http://www.youtube.com/music it\'s fantastic
         


        

Answer 1

This might work->

\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))

Found it somewhere

Will find links ->

http://foo.com/blah_blah/

(Something like http://foo.com/blah_blah)

http://foo.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia)

Hope this works....