Question

I am looking to implement a system to strip out url’s from text posted by a user.

I know there is no perfect solution and users will still attempt things like:

www dot google dot com

so I know that ultimately any solution will be flawed in some way… all I am looking to do really is reduce the number of people doing it.

Any suggestions, source or approaches appriciated,

Thanks

Answer 1

There are number of regular expression pattern matchers here. Some of them are quite complex.
I would suggest that running multiple ones may be a good idea.