Re: regex of a url

Despite asking for URL matching, I think you are looking for a domain name matcher. Try something like:

use Regexp::Common;
if ($name =~ /^$RE{net}{domain}\z/) { ... }
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Note that there is no requirement for a webserver to be on a domain starting with www.

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Re: regex of a url by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 26, 2004 at 10:24 UTC
Note that `/^$RE{net}{domain}\z/` will match a string consisting of a single space (it does so because RFC 1035 says that's a valid domain). Use `/^(?! )$RE{net}{domain}\z/ # Or /^$RE{net}{domain}{-nospace}\z/` [download] if you don't want to match single space strings. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]