Question

When I am trying to explode the url from one string, its not returning the actual URL. Please find the def I have used

def self.getUrlsFromString(str="")
    url_regexp = /(?:http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+(?:[\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(?:(?::[0-9]{1,5})?\/[^\s]*)?/ix
    url        = str.split.grep(url_regexp)
    return url
rescue Exception =>  e
    DooDooLogger.log(e.message,e)
    return ""
end

when I do self.getUrlsFromString(" check this site...http://lnkd.in/HjUVii") it’s returning

site…http://lnkd.in/HjUVii

Instead of

http://lnkd.in/HjUVii

Answer 1

It’s because grep in Array class returns an array of every element for element === pattern, so

str.split.grep(/http/ix)

will return [“site…http://lnkd.in/HjUVii“] too.

You can try instead of

str.split.grep(url_regexp)

something like this:

url_regexp.match(str).to_s