regex url validator?

[J. Landman Gay]

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On October 22, 2018 9:40:09 PM Monte Goulding via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Here’s one I have used which seems to work nicely:
>
>
> constant kURLRegex = 
> "^(?:(?:(([^:\/#\?]+:)?(?:(?:\/\/)(?:(?:(?:([^:@\/#\?]+)(?:\:([^:@\/#\?]*))?)@)?(([^:\/#\?\]\[]+|\[[^\/\]@#?]+\])(?:\:([0-9]+))?))?)?)?((?:\/?(?:[^\/\?#]+\/+)*)(?:[^\?#]*)))?(\?[^#]+)?)(#.*)?"
> 	
> local tOrigin, tScheme,  tUsername, tPassword, tHost, tNetloc, tPort, 
> tPath, tParameters, tFragment
>
> if not matchText(pURL, kURLRegex, tOrigin, tScheme, tUsername, tPassword, \
> 			tHost, tNetloc, tPort, tPath, tParameters, tFragment) then
> 	throw format("could not parse url '%s'", pURL)
> end if
>
>
>> On 23 Oct 2018, at 1:07 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi peeps,
>>
>> I'm trying to use regex to validate a list of URLs
>>
>> I've tried 4 or 5 different "regular" expressions that supposedly work
>> ..... but LC does not give me anything back.  None of them work,
>>
>> Like for example ... this one.
>>
>> ^(?:http(s)?:\/\/)?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w\.-]+)+[\w\-\._~:/?#[\]@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=.]+$
>>
>> or this one
>>
>> /^(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})([\/\w \.-]*)*\/?$/
>>
>> or this one just to make sure
>>
>> (https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)
>>
>> Does anyone know how to get these or others to work in LC?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
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