Regular expression for recognizing url

Question

I want to create a Regex for url in order to get all links from input string. The Regex should recognize the following formats of the url address:

• http(s)://w

Answer 1

I don't know why your result in match is only http:// but I cleaned your regex a bit

((?:(?:https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):(?://|\\\\)(?:www\.)?|www\.)[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+,\-=\\.&]+)

(?:) are non capturing groups, that means there is only one capturing group left and this contains the complete matched string.

(?:(?:https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):(?://|\\\\)(?:www\.)?|www\.) The link has now to start with something fom the first list followed by an optional www. or with an www.

[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+,\-=\\.&] I added a comma to the list (otherwise your long example does not match) escaped the - (you were creating a character range) and unescaped the . (not needed in a character class.

See this here on Regexr, a useful tool to test regexes.

But URL matching is not a simple task, please see this question here