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

This is the best one.

NSString *urlRegex="(http|ftp|https|www|gopher|telnet|file)(://|.)([\\w_-]+(?:(?:\\.[\\w_-]+)‌​+))([\\w.,@?^=%&:/~+#-]*[\\w@?^=%&/~+#-])?";