• eduardog3000 [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    wdym, this is so easy to read:

    https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)
    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
      ·
      4 years ago

      You joke, but that's very straightforward to me.

      https, or nothing

      ://

      www., or nothing

      1-256 of these chars: [-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._+~#=]

      Until you get to a "." followed by:

      1-6 of these chars:[a-zA-Z0-9()]

      Any line break

      0+ of these chars: [-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_+.~#?&//=]

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I mean, yeah it's really not too bad when you really dig into it. But it's still just a mess.

        Although your "https, or nothing" is actually "http, optionally s"

        That one isn't even completely right. It gets a lot of false positives AFAIK (example: https://..com). The real thing is even worse.