From: franco <flazzarino@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T10:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I parse a string to find a URL?

On Sep 17, 7:46 pm, Daniel DeLorme <dan...@dan42.com> wrote:
> Jano Svitok wrote:
> > On 9/17/07, Jayson Williams <williams.jay...@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.comandhttp://www.xyz.com.")
>    => ["behold:", "http://www.xyz.com."]
> (notice the period at the end of xyz.com)
>
> Daniel

also the period is legal,