/^(?:([^:\/?#]+):)?(?:\/\/((?:(([^:@]*)(?::([^:@]*))?)?@)?([^:\/?#]*)(?::(\d*))?))?((((?:[^?#\/]*\/)*)([^?#]*))(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?)/, [your code here]

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 01:10:07PM +0000, jason via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> what is this?

It's a poor man's URL matcher.

(Yeah, hard to believe, but most of the unreadability is caused by the
Leaning Toothpick Syndrome caused by the poor choice of using / as regex
delimiter when literal '/'s occur so frequently in the pattern.)


T

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