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I need to update an iPhone app to find valid web URL's inside text blocks. So I need a Regular Expression to do that for me.<br />
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Is this the same Regular Expression format used in C#? I think there are different variants o the Regular Expression syntax.<br />
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Please advice.<br />
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Thanks.
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I need to update an iPhone app to find valid web URL's inside text blocks. So I need a Regular Expression to do that for me.

Is this the same Regular Expression format used in C#? I think there are different variants o the Regular Expression syntax.

Please advice.

Thanks.

ObjectiveC: Need a Regular Expression to find valid web URL's

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.

Regular Expressions

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