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Justin Homes
Justin Homes

Reputation: 3799

RegularExpression to Extract Url For Javascript

I have a regular expression that works to extract a url from a given string. It's in C# and I want to convert it to javascript:

 private static Regex urlPattern = new Regex(@"(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'"".,<>?«»“”‘’]))", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

But when I try this since there is no verbatim it gives me error:

var regexToken = /(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'"".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/i;

How can I easily convert this? I get the following SyntaxError: invalid quantifier enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 334

Answers (1)

Bergi
Bergi

Reputation: 664528

(?i) is no valid option to set the ignoreCase flag in JavaScript (while ignored in Opera, it seems to throw a SyntaxError for you). The flags are only given as a suffix of the regular expression literal, or as a string in the second parameter of the RegExp constructor.

Also, you forgot to escape the slashes - since the delimit the literal, they need to be escaped.

Use either

var regexToken = /\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:\/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'"".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/i;

or (slightly more complicated)

var regexToken = new RegExp("\\b((?:[a-z][\\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\\s()<>]+|\\(([^\\s()<>]+|(\\([^\\s()<>]+\\)))*\\))+(?:\\(([^\\s()<>]+|(\\([^\\s()<>]+\\)))*\\)|[^\\s`!()\\[\\]{};:'\"\".,<>?«»“”‘’]))", "i");

Upvotes: 1

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