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[A_StClaire_]

hi,

dumb question. is there a .NET function that gets me the string
"http://msn.com" if I feed it stuff like "http://msn.com/help" or
"http://msn.com/msnmessenger"?

thx

 

[Mudhead]

Try the URI class

 

[Bry]

hi,

dumb question. is there a .NET function that gets me the string
"http://msn.com" if I feed it stuff like "http://msn.com/help" or
"http://msn.com/msnmessenger"?

thx

You can do that with a regular expression

e.g.

string[] test = { @"http://www.msn.com/help/",
@"www.msn.com/help/",
@"https://www.example.com/somepage.php",
@"hTtP://foo.bar.com/test.html",
@"htTpS://examplepage.com/foo"
};

string regex =
@"([hH][tT]{2}[pP][sS]?://|[fF][tT][pP]://)?[a-z0-9-]*\.?[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,}\.?[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,}";

foreach (string s in test)
Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(s, regex));


Output:

http://www.msn.com
www.msn.com
https://www.example.com
hTtP://foo.bar.com
htTpS://examplepage.com

Hope that helps,
Bry