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December 02 2009

snej
17:09

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))) A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet.
Tags: programming parsing library web