Find URL in a string

[Mike Kansky]

Is there a built in function in .NET to find URL in a string so i can format
it as <a href="url" ?

useful for Forum Posts and other human entered text.

 

[S. Justin Gengo]

Mike,

Regular expressions work well for this.

Something like:

Dim RegEx As New
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("(href|url|src)\s*=\s*(??:\""(?<url>[^\""]*)\"")|(?<url>[^\s*]
))", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Compiled)

Dim Matches As System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection =
RegEx.Matches(html)



Regards,


--
S. Justin Gengo
Web Developer / Programmer

Free code library:
http://www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche

 

[Mike Kansky]

Killer method i just found:
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Return Regex.Replace(sURL, "(\bhttp://[^ ]+\b)", "<a href=""$0"">$0</a>")

COOL!

Mike,

Regular expressions work well for this.

Something like:

Dim RegEx As New
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("(href|url|src)\s*=\s*(??:\""(?<url>[^\""]*)\"")|(?<url>[^\s*]
))", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Compiled)

Dim Matches As System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection =
RegEx.Matches(html)



Regards,


--
S. Justin Gengo
Web Developer / Programmer

Free code library:
http://www.aboutfortunate.com

"Out of chaos comes order."
Nietzsche

Is there a built in function in .NET to find URL in a string so i can
format it as <a href="url" ?

useful for Forum Posts and other human entered text.