What is the fastest way to get the domain/host name from a URL?

Question

I need to go through a large list of string url\'s and extract the domain name from them.

For example:

http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions

Answer 1

You could try to use regular expressions.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Here is a question about extracting domain name with regular expressions in Java:

Regular expression to retrieve domain.tld