URL regular expression?

Question

can anyone tell me a regular expression to find a url within a string
thanks in advance

Answer 1

Have to put line breaks so Y!A doesn't truncate...

(([a-zA-Z]
[0-9a-zA-Z+\\-\\.]*:)
?/{0,2}[0-9a-zA-Z;/?
:@&=+$\\.\\-_!~*'()%]
+)?(#[0-9a-zA-Z;/?
:@&=+$\\.\\-_!
~*'()%]+)?