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[Daniel Convissor]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 02:32:38PM -0700, Chris Hubbard wrote:

> "^((http|https|ftp)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,5}(:[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?\/?([a-zA-Z0-9\-\._\?\,\'\/\\\+&%\$#\=~])*)$"; 

You're over escaping things.  Items in [] don't need to be escaped, and to
search for "-" itself, put it at the beginning or the end, [a-zA-Z0-9.-],
so it doesn't think you're creating another range.

Also, I don't think ":" needs escaping and you can change your delimiter
from "/" to some other character that's unused in the expression so you
don't have to do "\/" over and over.

... snip, the polite thing to do ...

--Dan

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