And then there is the module that does it all - I am a regex scaredy cat!

URI::Find This module does one thing: Finds URIs and URLs in plain text. It finds them quickly and it finds them all(or what URI::URL considers a URI to be.) It only finds URIs which include a scheme (http:// or the like), for something a bit less strict have a look at URI::Find::Schemeless.

jdtoronto