From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-04-18T00:41:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression to parse out "host" part of URL string

Hi --

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Wes Gamble wrote:

> All,
>
> I am trying to write a regex to parse out the "host" part of a potential
> URL.
>
> So if presented with
>
> www.cnn.com
>
> I want to get
>
> www.cnn.com
>
> If presented with
>
> www.cnn.com/
>
> I want to get
>
> www.cnn.com
>
> If presented with
>
> www.cnn.com/some/other/stuff
>
> I want to get
>
> www.cnn.com
>
> This regex:  /(.*)?\/*/  matches everything
> This regex:  /(.*)?\// matches everything including the "/"
>
> How can I just get the part of the string before the slash?

How about:

   /[^\/]+/   # match one or more non-slash characters


David

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