From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2006-12-27T19:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: reg exp comparison hanging irb

On 12/27/06, gaurav bagga <gaurav.v.bagga@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi simon,
>   thanks for reply
>   so whats the way out i am not used to reg exp that much
>   some one helped me with reg exp that i posted
>   as a single entry might stop the things to work....

do you want to do a rough validation of the entire url?
or do you want to check only the beginning?

try this one
/^(https?:\/\/)?\w+([-._=&+\/?#]\w+)+$/i

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Simon Strandgaard
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