Terrific. Thanks.

Thanks

Thanks man ;)

Excellent, this is a great help.

One suggestion though... be careful to escape the dash "-" character when using it in character class definitions []. Since a raw "-" is used to define a range (e.g., [A-Z]), you may want to escape the dash used in your Reg Ex.

The class [\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\-=\\\.&] will unintentionally match all of the characters between and =. The following includes an escaped dash:

string pattern = "((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))[\w\d:#%/;$()~_?\\-=\\\.&]*)"

Don't use the regex from Stephen G.

Url's with "-" are splitted with this code.

I thing it is not good, because when you specify url like this:

http://www.google.com:xxx (where :xxx represents port number) this must failed because xxx is not number (for port), but using this regex returns true.

Hellow Admin!!!!!!!!!!!

Thnks for presentation of bestandeveruseful site

This Regex work fine for me:

^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!_{'().&=$%-]: )?[0-9a-z_!}'().&=$%-]@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|([0-9a-z_!_{'()-]\.)([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!}*'().;?:@&=$,%#-])/?)$

Thanks...

Kiiind of obscure but a note to anyone using this with cURL: There's a security hole in versions 5.11 to and including 7.19.3 where a 'file' URL can be exploited to manipulate server files and run commands as the webuser. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html

Thanks a lot man....

"((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))[\w\d:#%/;$()~_?\-=\\\.&]*)"

if this right then thanks otherwise write in detailed not in short form

"((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))[\w\d:#%/;$()~_?\-=\\\.&]*)"

update your blog or write in detail not in short

blah nlah blah

thanks!

<i>...and</i> for the url starting with <em>"/site.php?......"</em> ?

great! great!! great!!!

Dude,

I put that regular expression in my code and when I put "http://www." (without double quotes) is valid based on that regular expression. It shouldn't be valid..

Hello sir, some times it includes

</a

when we find matches.

thank you paul

Why not use [^//s] (non blank character) ?

ok.... good it is

This REGEX validates a link like "http://www.asdf", I'm sure this is not supposed to happen...