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

If you have the url pattern, you should be able to search for it in your string. Just make sure that the pattern doesnt have ^ and $ marking beginning and end of the url string. So if P is the pattern for URL, look for matches for P.