Posted by Michael Fesser on 06/21/07 13:23

..oO(Phil Latio)

>Thanks for that. I am not really familiar regular expressions yet but well
>written ones seem quite useful.

There's another error in your pattern:

/^[http://www.|www.][\S]+$/

The first part creates a character class, which simply means to match
one of the characters [htp:/w.|]. Use parentheses instead to create a
subpattern, use another delimiter and maybe the /i modifier:

#^(http://www\.|www\.)[\S]+$#i

or try

#^(https?://)?www\.[\S]+$#i

But validating an entire URL is a bit more complex ...

Micha

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