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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:22:54+00:00

I have the following code: NSString *text = @http://bit.ly/111 http://bit.ly/222 http://www.www.www; NSRegularExpression *aLinkRegex =

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I have the following code:

NSString *text = @"http://bit.ly/111 http://bit.ly/222 http://www.www.www";
NSRegularExpression *aLinkRegex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@".*http://.*" options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive error:nil];
NSUInteger numberOfMatches = [aLinkRegex numberOfMatchesInString:text options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [text length])];

I want to find the number of http’s in the text (I know this isn’t a good regex), but numberOfMatchesInString always returns 1, while it should return 3 in the above code.

Could someone please tell me what’s wrong with the above code?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is only one match, because your regular expression matches the first http:// and the .* “eats” the rest of the string.

    Why not search for something more like:

    http://

    or if you are trying to capture each URL in full, something like:

    http://[^ ]*

    Which means search for anything after http:// that is not a space.

    You should really look into reading through some kind of regular expression guide.

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