Regular expression to find URLs within a string

Question

Does anyone know of a regular expression I could use to find URLs within a string? I\'ve found a lot of regular expressions on Google for determining if an entire string is

Answer 1

I think this regex pattern handle precisely what you want

/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/

and this is an snippet example to extract Urls:

// The Regular Expression filter
$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";

// The Text you want to filter for urls
$text = "The text you want  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6038061/regular-expression-to-find-urls-within-a-string to filter goes here.";

// Check if there is a url in the text
preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $text, $url,$matches);
var_dump($matches);