Re: Validate URL

[Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub dot com>]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Walter Purvis wrote:

> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  However, there can be exactly one "://"
> >  sequence for a valid URL,
> This is not true.
>
> Just use the regular expression I posted. It would be incredibly  
> complicated
> and error prone to try to test for every permutation of a valid URL  
> using RB
> string functions.

Actually, it wouldn't be much harder than writing that regular  
expression.  It's that regular expressions are a language designed  
for this purpose.
Charles Yeomans
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