Regex to match only links starting with www

Asked Oct 24 '16 at 20:09

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say i have a list of URLs like this:

https://www.pinterest.com/brunight/ghibli/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/366691594633734460/
www.onlineghibli.com/
www.studioghibli.com.au/
www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/

I use the following regex:

/www.*/i

However it will just match the urls starting with https:// also staring at the www. part of those urls.

How could i only match the URLs from the above list starting with www. and ignore the first 2 URLs?

asked Oct 24 '16 at 20:09

zeddex

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Your regex finds *partial* matches. Adding `^` anchor at the start and `$` at the end will fix this issue. – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 24 '16 at 20:10
Thanks that works great :D – zeddex Oct 24 '16 at 20:53

Regex to match only links starting with www

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