On Jun 8, Francesco del Vecchio said: >I have to find URLs in a text file (so, cannot use LWP or HTML parser)
I'm curious why you can't use a module to extract URLs, but I'll continue anyway. >/(http.:\/\/.*\s)/ That regex is broken in a few ways. First, it does NOT match 'http:', it only matches 'http_:', where there is some character between the p and the colon. Second, the .* in it is greedy (it matches as much as it can). Third, it requires your URL to be followed by a space, which won't always be the case. >"try to click here http://www.yahoo.com or there http://www.google.com"; I would suggest trying: @urls = $string =~ m{(https?://\S+)}g; Using \S+ makes it match one or more non-whitespace characters. The only problem with this is that if there happens to be punctuation after the URL, it'll get included. An example is this: Go to http://www.yahoo.com, and you'll see what I mean. That will match `http://www.yahoo.com,' (including the comma). -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN ID: PINYAN [Need a programmer? If you like my work, let me know.] <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
