I'm after a decent regular expression which will match almost any mainstream protocol, along with user and/or password + ports with subdirectories.

I've been lookin on google for a bit, because I saw one that was a few hundred characters in length(at least), but I must've removed the link from my bookmarks, and can't seem to find it.

Anyone know ?

wtf? is this mysql queries or something?

^:\/\/$ will match *://* - thats all protocols (?)

more info please dude...

oh i had to read the rest of it, use explode(":", string) to get the user/pass.

if its always protocol://blah:blha@hostname.com:port/blah/blah
exp[0] is the protocol name, remove("\/\/", exp[1]) == user, remove("@", exp[2]) == pass,

bah i cant be bothered to keep explaining, you get the idea. explode/str_replace is all you need.

http://www.regexbuddy.com/

aint over till the fat lady sings


^^ thats a regular expression.

teq, yes, that would match all protocols, but not if they were missing the protocol information (ie, assumed http).

Doesn't matter, I have one that will match, but fails on some. Still, if anyone knows of this uber regexp, gimme a buz.