regex url validator?

[Brian Milby]

Ah... yes if you want to use a regex then you must specify the type of filterPattern using “regex pattern” because if not specified then “wildcard pattern” is assumed.

Thanks,
Brian
On Oct 23, 2018, 9:56 AM -0500, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> I mean AN other function: rsIsValidEmail_LC
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Oct 23, 2018, at 07:54 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > This looks like it is dependent on other functions. Are these built into Livecode??
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 23, 2018, at 06:26 , Stephen MacLean via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
> > > Don’t know if you found a solution yet, but this is from the rsIsValid suite I put together a few years back.
> > >
> > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=26653&p=138698#p138698 <http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=26653&p=138698#p138698>.
> > > https://github.com/renegadesteve/rsIsValid <https://github.com/renegadesteve/rsIsValid>
> > >
> > >
> > > Below is the LCS version:
> > > function rsIsValidURL pURL
> > >
> > > put pURL into tCC
> > >
> > > // get scheme
> > >
> > > put "^(?<scheme>[a-z][a-z0-9+\-.]*):" into tSchemeRegex
> > >
> > > get matchText(tCC, tSchemeRegex,tScheme)
> > >
> > > // check scheme for http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, nntp, news, or file
> > >
> > > if it <> true then return false
> > >
> > > if tScheme = "mailto" then
> > >
> > > //get the email address from the URL and then validate it
> > >
> > > delete char 1 to 7 of tCC
> > >
> > > return rsIsValidEmail_LC(tCC)
> > >
> > > else
> > >
> > > // setup the regex pattern
> > >
> > > put "^(?:http://|https://|ftp://|ftps://|nntp://|news://)(?:\S+(?::\S*)?@)?(?:(?!(?:10|127)(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!(?:169\.254|192\.168)(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!172\.(?:1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3])(?:\.(?:1?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]-*)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]-*)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}]{2,}))\.?)(?::\d{2,5})?(?:[/?#]\S*)?$" into tURLRegex
> > >
> > > // run filter against regex pattern and set result to true if it matches.
> > >
> > > filter tCC with regex pattern tURLRegex into tMatch
> > >
> > > if tMatch <> empty then
> > >
> > > return true
> > >
> > > else
> > >
> > > return false
> > >
> > > end if
> > >
> > > end if
> > >
> > > end rsIsValidURL
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Steve MacLean
> > >
> > > > On Oct 22, 2018, at 10:07 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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