Regex to match URL

Question

I am using the following regex to match a URL:

$search  = \"/([\\S]+\\.(MUSEUM|TRAVEL|AERO|ARPA|ASIA|COOP|INFO|NAME|BIZ|CAT|COM|INT|JOBS|NET|ORG|PRO|TEL|AC|A         


        

Answer 1

Just to add to things. I know this doesn't fully and directly answer this specific question, but it's the best place I can find to add this info. I wrote a jQuery plug a while back to match urls for similar purpose, however at current state (will update it as time goes on) it will still consider addresses like 'http://abc.php' as valid. However, if there is no http, https, or ftp at url start, it will not return 'valid'. Though I should clarify, this jQuery method returns an object and not just one string or boolean. The object breaks things down and among the breakdown is a .valid boolean. See the full fiddle and test in the link at bottom. If you simply wanna grab the plugin and go, see below:

jQuery Plugin

(function($){$.matchUrl||$.extend({matchUrl:function(c){var b=void 0,d="url,,scheme,,authority,path,,query,,fragment".split(","),e=/^(([^\:\/\?\#]+)\:)?(\/\/([^\/\?\#]*))?([^\?\#]*)(\?([^\#]*))?(\#(.*))?/,a={url:void 0,scheme:void 0,authority:void 0,path:void 0,query:void 0,fragment:void 0,valid:!1};"string"===typeof c&&""!=c&&(b=c.match(e));if("object"===typeof b)for(x in b)d[x]&&""!=d[x]&&(a[d[x]]=b[x]);a.scheme&&a.authority&&(a.valid=!0);return a}});})(jQuery);

jsFiddle with example:

http://jsfiddle.net/SpYk3/e4Ank/