Parsing a URL in Java

Question

I am looking for an equivalent to PHP\'s \"parse_url\" function in Java. I am not running in Tomcat. I have query strings saved in a database that I\'m trying to b

Answer 1

You can accomplish that using java.net.URL:

URL url = new URL("http://hostname:port/path?arg=value#anchor");
String protocol = url.getProtocol(); // http
String host = url.getHost(); // hostname
String path = url.getPath(); // /path
int port = url.getPort(); // port
String query = url.getQuery(); // arg=value
String ref = url.getRef(); // anchor