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

It is just simple.

Use this pattern: \b((ftp|https?)://)?([\w-\.]+\.(com|net|org|gov|mil|int|edu|info|me)|(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+))(:\d+)?(\/[\w-\/]*(\?\w*(=\w+)*[&\w-=]*)*(#[\w-]+)*)?

It matches any link contains:

Allowed Protocols: http, https and ftp

Allowed Domains: *.com, *.net, *.org, *.gov, *.mil, *.int, *.edu, *.info and *.me OR IP

Allowed Ports: true

Allowed Parameters: true

Allowed Hashes: true