Posted by Mikkel Z. Herold on 01/10/07 23:45

Hi.

I have a problem with a regex - I hope someone here can help (though
strictly speaking it is not a php issue):

I have this regex that I use to check the syntax of URLs:

^((ht|f)tps?://)((([a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3}))|(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}([0-9]{1,3})))((/|\?)[a-z0-9~#%&'_\+=:\?\.-]*)*)$

I need to modify it, so that it accepts URLs with an "@" in them, such
as http://person.au.dk/da/dekan.hum@au.dk.

I have tried this

^((ht|f)tps?://)((([a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3}))|(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}([0-9]{1,3})))((/|\?)[a-z0-9~#%&'_\+=:\?\.-@]*)*)$

and that accepts URLs with @, BUT it rejects all other well-formed URLs!

As you can tell, I don't know much about regex'es, and the above is one
I have cut'n'pasted. Hope someone can help me out.

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