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regexp problem by agustin029 on 09-21-2012 at 12:09 AM
how I can combine these two regex??
code:
link = msg.match(/((ftp|https|http)?:\/\/[^\s]+)/g); //returns http,https and ftp links
link2 = msg.match(/(www?.[^\s]+)/g); //returns www. links
RE: regexp problem by whiz on 09-21-2012 at 09:34 AM
I think you might have a few issues with those expressions. You need to escape literal "." characters (/./ matches any character). Also, the ? after "www" only makes the third "w" optional (i.e. it will match "ww" or "www", which I'm assuming is not what you want). Also, the former expression will match :// (without a protocol identifier; again, don't know if this is what you want or not).
But because you've used [^\s]+ to match the rest of the address, and the protocol/www is optional, this will match anything.
If you just want to match any URL, regardless of the protocol or www at the start, perhaps something like this?
Javascript code:link = msg.match(/(((ftp|https|http):\/\/)?[A-Za-z0-9-_~:/\?#@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-_~:\/\?#@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]+)+)/g);
That looks a bit of a mouthful. Basically, [A-Za-z0-9-_~:/\?#@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;= ]+ matches any characters valid in a URL (which includes the www, so I've left that out. It will try to match the protocol, followed by two or more sets of valid characters, separated by a ".". So it would match foo.com, foo.co.uk, www.foo.co.uk, www.bar.foo.co.uk and so on, as well as any of these with a protocol at the start.
It's still not perfect though, as it will match any two (or more) sets of valid characters separated with a ".".