Regex URL Match

Question

I just really started learning how to use regex\'s and i am trying to create one to match urls. So far i have:

(http://|https://|www|\\w)+\\.[\\w]{2,4}[^\\s]+
         


        

Answer 1

Plenty of stuff on the web...

• You can look at what we do within Horde: Horde URL filter
• Ours has been derived from http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
• And there is also PHP validation/regex for URL