> Does anyone have a regex handy to check a potential link.
>
> For instance: I need to make sure the link specified is in the
> following
> format
>
> http://www.whatever OR http://something
>
> Im not sure what the best check would be, I guess this is the least
> common
> denominator for strictly http links.
> Someone correct me if I am wrong though.
>
There are a lot of valid formats for links just as there are for email
address.
you can check that each is a valid format, but that doesn't prove that
is valid.
At least with links, you can validate them by issuing a cfhttp request.
If you are just scanning text to find any links, just look for
something like:
'http://[^ "]*
(everything after a http:// until a space or quote)
HTH
Dick
"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
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