I'd check out the ruby URI module: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/URI.html
It's a more complex problem than it appears at first glance. good luck! On Oct 15, 7:44 am, Joe Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
