Regex to match URL

Question

I am using the following regex to match a URL:

$search  = \"/([\\S]+\\.(MUSEUM|TRAVEL|AERO|ARPA|ASIA|COOP|INFO|NAME|BIZ|CAT|COM|INT|JOBS|NET|ORG|PRO|TEL|AC|A         


        

Answer 1

Using a single regexp to match an URL string makes the code incredible unreadable. I'd suggest to use parse_url to split the URL into its components (which is not a trivial task), and check each part with a regexp.