Question

I’m trying to match the the URI / URL scheme (e.x. ftp, http, https) using this regex ^(.*:) . The problem is that my url has a port number so the : to connote server connection in the scheme isn’t the only one in the URL there is also :80. How do I just match the scheme using regex?

Given this example:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7246927612831078230&hl=en#00h02m30s

I would like regex to just match:

http

I’m not interested in something like

^((http[s]?|ftp):\/)

I know this would work it, it is limiting however. It wouldn’t give me mailto, tel, ssh, etc.

Answer 1

I just found that ^[^:]+ works.