Re: Small regular expression question

Tim McIntyre
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:02:49 -0000

I''d check out the ruby URI module:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/URI.html

It''s a more complex problem than it appears at first glance.

good luck!

On Oct 15, 7:44 am, Joe Peck
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m looking to write a regular expression that will match valid
URLs.
> My problem is that it almost works, except it accepts URLs with / in the
> middle of them, suchs as:http://www.ruby/rails.com
>
> It looks (to me) like my regular expression should not match strings
> like that, but it does.  Here is the regular expression:
>
> .match(/^((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.(\w+).*$/ix)
>
> How can I make it not accept URLs with / in the middle of them?
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