My app receives numerous text strings which may or may not contain a URL anywhere within the string. What would be the best method to extract a URL from within a string? Thank you.
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My app receives numerous text strings which may or may not contain a URL anywhere within the string. What would be the best method to extract a URL from within a string? Thank you.
The BSD-licensed AutoHyperlinks framework provides classes to scan text for URLs and either return them to you or mark them up as links in an attributed string.
I don’t think it builds out of the box for the iPhone, but you could always add preprocessor directives to cut out any AppKit-dependent code. The scan-and-return interface should just work, once you get it to build. (Make sure to run the tests.)
Mike Abdullah wrote a patch for iPhone support. You might try that.