Extract url with Regex

Question

I've a regex to extract an url but sometime it doesn't work. Here is my regex

@"((https?|ftp|file)\://|www.)[A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+(/[A-Za-z0-9\?\&\=;\+!'\(\)\*\-\. _~%]*)*"

possible duplicate of [What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161738/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-to-check-if-a-string-is-a-valid-url) — Omer Sonmez, Oct 21 '14 at 12:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '14 at 12:10

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Try this fiddle

The regex you are looking for is @"^(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[\w.\-]+(\.[\w\-]+)[/#?].*$"

answered Oct 21 '14 at 12:10

Kristijan Iliev

with your solution, i don't have the url when its anywhere in a text – user1898765 Oct 21 '14 at 17:51

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