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How do I validate the format of a URL or email
How do I validate the format of a URL or email
How do I validate the format of a URL or email
Apr 7th, 2008 23:08
ha mo, Mark Szlazak, "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl
The following uses regular expressions adapted from Jeffrey Friedl's
book to check the format of a URL or email string.
In the URL regular expression the protocol part (i.e, ftp, http or
https) is optional so the URL can start with the hostname. The regular
expression also accepts an optional port number and has a heuristic
that works well for an optional trailing part that begins with a
forward slash (/).
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function isURL (url) {
var urlPattern = /^(?:(?:ftp|https?):\/\/)?(?:[a-z0-9](?:[-a-z0-9]*[a-
z0-9])?\.)+
(?:com|edu|biz|org|gov|int|info|mil|net|name|museum|coop|aero|[a-z][a-
z])\b(?:\d+)?(?:\/[^;"'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7f-\xff]*
(?:[.,?]+[^;"'<>()\[\]{}\s\x7f-\xff]+)*)?/;
return urlPattern.test(url.toLowerCase());
}
function checkURL (field) {
if (!isURL(field.value)) {
alert('Please enter correct url!');
field.focus();
field.select();
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="aForm">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="url">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="check" VALUE="Check URL"
ONCLICK="checkURL(this.form.url);">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
A similar arrangement for email format validation uses the following
regular expression.
var emailPattern = /^\w[-.\w]*\@[-a-b0-9]+(?:\.[-a-b0-9]+)*\.
(?:com|edu|biz|org|gov|int|info|mil|net|name|museum|coop|aero|[a-z][a-
z])\b/;
http://www.businessian.com
http://www.computerstan.com
http://www.financestan.com
http://www.healthstan.com
http://www.internetstan.com
http://www.moneyenews.com
http://www.technologystan.com
http://www.zobab.com
http://www.healthinhealth.com
