That's exactly why I suggested it. Talk about a handy, generally difficult 
to manage function that would be great to have a shortcut for. I figure 
that http, ftp, news, and file are the ones that most people would use; if 
those other schemes were missing I certainly wouldn't be offended.

At 02:06 PM 8/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>(A bit tongue-in-cheek for a second, here.)
>
>Have you seen a good regex for validating URLs lately?  It's *nasty*.  See:
>
>http://www.foad.org/~abigail/Perl/url2.html
>
>Or, if you're the type of person who skips to the end, the regex can be
>found here:
>
>http://www.foad.org/~abigail/Perl/url3.regex
>
>It's a bit more than 7500 characters long.  :)  However, I think that it
>would make an *excellent* test of CF's regex engine.  Of course you'd have
>to translate from perl-style regexs to CF-style regexs, but it should be
>possible.
>
>-R
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:31 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Functions in Cold Fusion
>
>
>How about IsURL?
>
>At 01:10 PM 8/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >OK, I need some community input here. For my article on custom functions,
> >I've written one for IsEmail and IsPhone. Can people send me a few others
>to
> >'add in'. I'd like the article to have a few pre-built functions that can
>be
> >used right off the bat. The only limits are that they must be built using
> >functions in CF. No tags. For example, IsPhone uses this code:
> >REFindNoCase('([0-9]{3}[-_. /]?)?[0-9]{3}[-_. /]?[0-9]{4}', number)
>
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