Extracting URLs, not perfect but "good enough"

2 Kicks

submitted by activa(2340) 3 years, 3 months ago

Detecting URLs in text is harder than you would expect. In fact, it can't be done with a set of hard rules, but we can get very close by using a single .NET regular expression. Purists will protest, but what's wrong with "good enough"?

add a comment |category: Regular Expressions |Views: 18
Tweet

tags: RegEx another

Everyones tags:

Your Tags:

Please login or signup.

Add a live kick counter to your blog >> liveImage

You can even customize the image by choosing your own colors, and then clicking the button below to update the preview and the html code:

"Kick It" text
"Kick It" background
kick count text
kick count background
border

Simply copy and paste this HTML into your blog post.

Users who kicked this story:

Hosed(20) -

activa(2340)

Comments:

No comments so far

Most Active Users

What's this?