Check if string has url using regular expression

Question

i want to check if a given string has a regular expression or not. I am using this

#if($feed.message.matches('.*https?://.*'))
     $feed.message <a href="$feed.message"></a>
#else   
   $feed.message
#end

so it works for following url (and i get both message and message url)

http://www.p4pune.com/img/Scene.jpeg

but not working for following url (i get only message string)

string before url http://www.p4pune.com/img/Scene.jpeg

where feed.message contains the links (give above)

Could you be specific on the intended results? In the second case, do you really need the following? string before url http://www.p4pune.com/img/Scene.jpeg <a href="string before url http://www.p4pune.com/img/Scene.jpeg"></a> — wau
– wau, Commented Apr 17, 2013 at 12:29

adrilomb · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-17 07:33:25Z

1

By removing some characters of the beginning of your regex, it seems to work for me :

(http|ftp|https)://[\w-]+(\.[\w-]+)+([\w.,@?^=%&amp;:/~+#-]*[\w@?^=%&amp;/~+#-])?

answered Apr 17, 2013 at 7:33

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