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Sunday, June 1, 2008

VB.NET Regular Expression to Check URL

VB.NET Regular Expression to Validate Url


Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Function IsValid_URL_Address(ByVal sURLAdd As String)

Return Regex.IsMatch(sURLAdd, "(https?ftp):\/\/([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})(:\d{1,4})?([-\w\/#~:.?+=&%@~]*)/")

End Function

The above will check for URL like http://www.dotnetdud.com etc


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5 comments:

  1. There's a mistake with the ) and (.

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  2. Hi Sebastian. Can you post the new regex expression

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  3. of course, this doesn't even work!

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  4. Hi Can you check if the following works for you:

    private bool IsValid_URL_Address(string sURLAdd)
    {

    MessageBox.Show(Regex.Match(sURLAdd, @"(https?|ftp):\/\/([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9}(:\d{1,4})?([-\w\/#~:.?+=&%@~]*)?").ToString());
    return Regex.IsMatch(sURLAdd, @"(https?|ftp):\/\/([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9}(:\d{1,4})?([-\w\/#~:.?+=&%@~]*)?");

    }

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  5. The following example will allow you to Input valid website address only, chk this:
    http://www.authorcode.com/regular-expression-for-validating-format-of-website-address-in-vb-net/

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