Small regular expression question

Rails
1

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?

2

Google’s your friend here. “validate url with regular expression”.

3

On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:44, Joe P. wrote:

.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

4

Frederick C. wrote:

On 15 Oct 2008, at 15:44, Joe P. wrote:

.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

Thanks, I don’t know how I missed that.

5

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!