From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-09-18T08:46:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I parse a string to find a URL?

Jano Svitok wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Jayson Williams <williams.jayson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a command in Ruby that will accept a string, and spit out a
>> URL that is contained in the string? I think I remember reading about
>> something that would do this, but I cant recall.
> 
> URI::extract
> 
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/URI.html#M004839

Wow, I didn't know about that, very nice. But it has a few weaknesses:
   >> URI.extract("behold: www.abc.com and http://www.xyz.com.")
   => ["behold:", "http://www.xyz.com."]
(notice the period at the end of xyz.com)

Daniel