From: equinox Date: 2008-12-18T10:02:12+09:00 Subject: Re: what's wrong with my method and regular expression? On Dec 17, 6:04 pm, Chris Hulan wrote: > On Dec 17, 7:07 pm, equinox wrote: > > > The code is > > >http://pastie.org/341880 > > > And i want it to return > > > nilwww.yahoo.co.in > > /~testing/i.html > > > but when I run this code, why doesn't thewww.yahoo.co.indetected? > > You might want to play with your regex on Rubular (http:// > rubular.com/) > A little experimentation shows that you probably want to include > 'http://' > in your input string > > cheers the code should work for both, if there's no http:// then it should print out: nil www.yahoo.co.in /~testing/i.html if there is then it should print: http www.yahoo.co.in /~testing/i.html