Basic url or domain RegEx to block users from adding a website to string
I'm trying to prohibit users from including any website URLs in a description field. I'm working on a script to use RegEx to strip out any website references, but I'm running into some unforeseen challenges. This is the RegEx I'm using to find the url/website match (should match with or without protocol, i.e. http://www.google.com/q?some=val or simply google.com):
((?:https://)|(?:http://)|(?:www.))?([a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:??)[a-zA-Z0-9-._?,'/\+&%$#=~]+)
A problem I'm seeing is that people don't include a space before a new sentence, so I'm getting false matches like in this example:
Some content
here.ButI forgot the space to start the second sentence.
Any ideas?
regex
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
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I'm trying to prohibit users from including any website URLs in a description field. I'm working on a script to use RegEx to strip out any website references, but I'm running into some unforeseen challenges. This is the RegEx I'm using to find the url/website match (should match with or without protocol, i.e. http://www.google.com/q?some=val or simply google.com):
((?:https://)|(?:http://)|(?:www.))?([a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:??)[a-zA-Z0-9-._?,'/\+&%$#=~]+)
A problem I'm seeing is that people don't include a space before a new sentence, so I'm getting false matches like in this example:
Some content
here.ButI forgot the space to start the second sentence.
Any ideas?
regex
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
add a comment |
I'm trying to prohibit users from including any website URLs in a description field. I'm working on a script to use RegEx to strip out any website references, but I'm running into some unforeseen challenges. This is the RegEx I'm using to find the url/website match (should match with or without protocol, i.e. http://www.google.com/q?some=val or simply google.com):
((?:https://)|(?:http://)|(?:www.))?([a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:??)[a-zA-Z0-9-._?,'/\+&%$#=~]+)
A problem I'm seeing is that people don't include a space before a new sentence, so I'm getting false matches like in this example:
Some content
here.ButI forgot the space to start the second sentence.
Any ideas?
regex
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
I'm trying to prohibit users from including any website URLs in a description field. I'm working on a script to use RegEx to strip out any website references, but I'm running into some unforeseen challenges. This is the RegEx I'm using to find the url/website match (should match with or without protocol, i.e. http://www.google.com/q?some=val or simply google.com):
((?:https://)|(?:http://)|(?:www.))?([a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:??)[a-zA-Z0-9-._?,'/\+&%$#=~]+)
A problem I'm seeing is that people don't include a space before a new sentence, so I'm getting false matches like in this example:
Some content
here.ButI forgot the space to start the second sentence.
Any ideas?
regex
regex
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
asked Nov 21 '18 at 19:20
Ian TunbridgeIan Tunbridge
529
529
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