On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:44, Joe Peck wrote:
> > I'm looking to write a regular expression that will match valid URLs. > My problem is that it almost works, except it accepts URLs with / in > the > middle of them, suchs as: > http://www.ruby/rails.com > > It looks (to me) like my regular expression should not match strings > like that, but it does. Here is the regular expression: > > .match(/^((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.(\w+).* > $/ix) > > How can I make it not accept URLs with / in the middle of them? for the record, the problem here is .* at the end ^((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.(\w+) matches against http://www.ruby and the remainder (/rails.com) trivially matches against .* Fred > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
