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ddeamaral
ddeamaral

Reputation: 1443

How can I check if a string is url friendly

I'm making an ecommerce application and I want the user to be able to put content at a URL they have specified. IF a user were to put in something like "/thank-you!", how can I clean the string to either be a valid URL or check this is valid URL format? I would want the url to basically always be hyphened between words so like "/thank-you" from "/thankyou". What's the best approach for achieving such a thing. I'm within c# using .NET MVC 4.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 868

Answers (1)

user6845125
user6845125

Reputation:

Alas, I cannot comment 'possible duplicate' yet (How to check whether a string is a valid HTTP URL?). As this must be an answer however, one way to validate a string URL would be using the URI.TryCreate functioanlity. See here also https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.trycreate(v=vs.110).aspx

URI is also the preferred data type for URLs, rather than strings.

Upvotes: 3

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