Using NSRegularExpression to extract URLs on the iPhone

Question

I\'m using the following code on my iPhone app, taken from here to extract all URLs from striped .html code.

I\'m only being able to extract the first URL, but I nee

Answer 1

I found myself so nauseated by the complexity of this simple operation ("match ALL the substrings") that I made a little library I am humbly calling Unsuck which adds some sanity to NSRegularExpression in the form of from and allMatches methods. Here's how you'd use them:

NSRegularExpression *re = [NSRegularExpression from: @"(?i)\\b(https?://.*)\\b"]; // or whatever your favorite regex is; Hossam's seems pretty good
NSArray *matches = [re allMatches:httpLine];

Please check out the unsuck source code on github and tell me all the things I did wrong :-)

Note that (?i) makes it case insensitive so you don't need to specify NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive.