RegEx to extract link

Question

I'm looking for a RegEx to extract links from a URL. The URL would be as below:

/redirecturl?u=http://www.abc.com/&amp;tkn=Ue4uhv&amp;ui=fWrQfyg46CADA&amp;scr=SSTYQFjAA&amp;mk=4D6GHGLfbQwETR

I need to extract the link http://www.abc.com from the above URL.

I tried the RegEx:

redirecturl\\?u=(?<link>[^\"]+)&

This works, but the problem is that it does not truncate all the characters after the first occurrence of &.

It would be great if you could modify the RegEx so that I just get the link.

Thanks in advance.

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/q/287144/82449) might help. – KMån Dec 27 '10 at 08:06 — KMån, Dec 27 '10 at 08:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '10 at 08:07

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redirecturl\\?u=([^\"&]+)

That should truncate when it reaches an & or if there is no & at all

answered Dec 27 '10 at 08:07

Tim

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And take the second group in the match collection. – Ikaso Dec 27 '10 at 08:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '10 at 08:15

What about using URI class ?

Example:

string toParse = "/redirecturl?u=http://www.abc.com/&amp;tkn=Ue4uhv&amp;ui=fWrQfyg46CADA&amp;scr=SSTYQFjAA&amp;mk=4D6GHGLfbQwETR";

// remove "/redirecturl?u="
string urlString = toParse.Substring(15,toParse.Length - 15); 

var url = new Uri(urlString);
var leftPart = url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Scheme | UriPartial.Authority);
// leftPart = "http://www.abc.com"

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 27 '10 at 08:23

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Escape the special characters by \ i.e for matching / use [\/]

var matchedString = Regex.Match(s,@"[\/]redirecturl[\?]u[\=](?<link>.*)[\/]").Groups["link"];

answered Dec 27 '10 at 08:23

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '11 at 21:45

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

//  A description of the regular expression:
//  
//  [Protocol]: A named capture group. [\w+]
//      Alphanumeric, one or more repetitions
//  :\/\/
//      :
//      Literal /
//      Literal /
//  [Domain]: A named capture group. [[\w@][\w.:@]+]
//      [\w@][\w.:@]+
//          Any character in this class: [\w@]
//          Any character in this class: [\w.:@], one or more repetitions
//  Literal /, zero or one repetitions
//  Any character in this class: [\w\.?=%&=\-@/$,], any number of repetitions

public Regex MyRegex = new Regex(
      "(?<Protocol>\\w+):\\/\\/(?<Domain>[\\w@][\\w.:@]+)\\/?[\\w\\."+
      "?=%&=\\-@/$,]*",
    RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
    | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
    | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace
    | RegexOptions.Compiled
    );


// Replace the matched text in the InputText using the replacement pattern
 string result = MyRegex.Replace(InputText,MyRegexReplace);

// Split the InputText wherever the regex matches
 string[] results = MyRegex.Split(InputText);

// Capture the first Match, if any, in the InputText
 Match m = MyRegex.Match(InputText);

// Capture all Matches in the InputText
 MatchCollection ms = MyRegex.Matches(InputText);

// Test to see if there is a match in the InputText
 bool IsMatch = MyRegex.IsMatch(InputText);

// Get the names of all the named and numbered capture groups
 string[] GroupNames = MyRegex.GetGroupNames();

// Get the numbers of all the named and numbered capture groups
 int[] GroupNumbers = MyRegex.GetGroupNumbers();

RegEx to extract link

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