From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2006-04-18T03:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression to parse out "host" part of URL strin

Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: list-bounce@example.com 
>> [mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Wes Gamble
>> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 10:05 AM
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: Re: Regular expression to parse out "host" part of URL strin
>>
>>
>> Daniel,
>>
>> I have that :).
>>
>> I'm trying to handle the case when I get a "URL" without the http://
>>
>> Wes
> 
> Instead of beating yourself up trying to come up with a regex, just
> stick the 'http://' in front of it yourself.

Definitely a solution, but the regexp shouldn't be that complicated too.

url.scan(%r{(?:.+://)?([^/]+)}).first.first

should do the trick. (?) well i hope thats not like the email-regexp...

cheers

Simon