I am trying to match URL using regex
https?:\/\/.*\..*
But unable to understand how to end the match if a space occurs after the URL.
For example in the below Image, for last match, i want it to end, before the space. But nothing seems to be working.
Can you also explain why adding \b (word boundary) at the end doesn't work ?
Just use a \S:
https?:\/\/.*\.\S*
\S means: match everything that is not a space char (space, tab, delim..)
Look at the solution below using lazy and a non-capturing group for the last white space:
Look here for far better regex' What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?
//well let us dive into this:
var matches = document.querySelector("pre").textContent.match(/https?:\/\/.*\..*/g);
console.log(matches);
/*
your regex does the following
search for http:// or https://
then you want to search for every character that is not a newline until you find a dot
after that you simply search for everything that is not a newline.
you need lazy and a non-capturing group, lazy is ? - (?=\s)
*/
var matches2 = document.querySelector("pre").textContent.match(/https?:\/\/.+?\..+?(?=\s)/g);
console.log(matches2);<pre>
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http://foo.co.uk/
http://regexr.com/foo.html?q=bard
https://mediatemple.net jhjhjhjhjhjh
</pre>
\b stops on a word boundery and . is a such a boundery.
.*, try to make it lazy .*?