Regular expression to match "http://whatever/" in Java [duplicate]

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Regex to match URL

Given a String, I want to know whether it represents a URL or not and get the website name, which is the "whatever". For example, given "http://google.com.sg" or "http://google.com.sg/", I want to return String "google.com.sg".

Is there a neat way of doing this in Java?

What have you tried? Just search for Java+Regex, you should find something — lethal-guitar
– lethal-guitar, Commented Jan 30, 2013 at 21:06
If this isn't a duplicate, I don't know what is. Try [regex] match URL or similar. — user166390
– user166390, Commented Jan 30, 2013 at 21:06

user1596371 · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-30 21:11:22Z

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There are a number of ways of doing this, but a simple regular expression is quite error-prone. Best thing to do is to feed it to an existing parser and then use methods to pull out the bits that you need, for example

import java.net.URL;
...
final URL url = new URL("http://google.com.sg/");
final String host = url.getHost();

answered Jan 30, 2013 at 21:11

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Mason Bryant · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-30 21:14:47Z

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If you do want a regular expression, here is one:

    String foo = "http://google.com";
    String bar = foo.replaceAll("^http://", "");

    if (bar.length() != foo.length()) {
        System.out.println("Url: " + bar);
    } else {
        System.out.println("Not Url: " + foo);
    }

answered Jan 30, 2013 at 21:14

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