Well then I'm still lost as far as how to use the provided Regex
string to validate a URL in RB. I tested with a string that was only
one of several variations of malformed URLs (as well as a valid URL),
and it validated each of them.
On 8/31/06, Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com> wrote:
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Dennis Birch wrote:
> What do you mean by "anchored to the beginning and end"?
The ^ in a regex says that the pattern has to start at the beginning
of the line and $ at the end of the regex says it has to end at the
end of the line.
(I may have this backwards)
If you change the regex to have those two characters (at the
beginning and end) and then have it check the URL it should avoid
finding a valid URL anywhere in any text
The other way be to simply see that the pattern found is the same
length as the original string
if it's not what you have found is a substring inside some other text
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