Re: Regular expression: How do I allow forward slashes?

maryam kamali
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:31:51 -0000

inotwell cumpiuter &and lunguish engilish thanks

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM, AlwaysCharging
<goodgets-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> In my app, I allow users to submit urls.  They (of course) need the
> ability to submit urls with a forward slash, "/", but whats the
> regular expression to allow them to do that?
>
> I currently use:
>
> validates_format_of :url, :with => /^[-\w\_.]+$/i
>
> to only allow alphanumerics, dashes, underscores, and dots to prevent
> cross site scripting when I later reconstruct these urls, but I
can''t
> figure out how to allow "/" as well.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
>
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
> To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org<rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
> .
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.