regex needed to strip out domain name

Question

I need a regexp to strip out just the domain name part of a url. So for example if i had the following url:

http://www.website-2000.com

the bit I\'d want the

Answer 1

r/^[^:]+:\/\/[^/?#]+//

This worked for me.

It will match any scheme or protocol and then after the :// matches any character that's not a / ? or #. These three characters, when they first occur in a URL, signal the end of the domain so that's were I end the match.