find out the String is url

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How to detect the presence of URL in a string

Is there a way to find out user entered text is webiste url .

For example if user entered

www.yahoo.com

www.google.fr

can we detect it is a url String ?

thanks

You can have a look at [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/5617749/593709) and this [post](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2230676/593709) — Adil Soomro, Mar 28 '12 at 06:33

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 06:59

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try { URL url = new URL("url_string"); }
catch (MalformedURLException e) { /* invalid URL */ }

answered Mar 28 '12 at 06:59

waqaslam

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Use java.net.URL to detect presence of url in string.

see the following thread :

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 06:47

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