Regular expression to get URL in string swift with Capitalized symbols
You turn off case sensitivity using an i
inline flag in regex, see Foundation Framework Reference for more information on available regex features.
(?ismwx-ismwx)
Flag settings. Change the flag settings. Changes apply to the portion of the pattern following the setting. For example, (?i) changes to a case insensitive match.The flags are defined in Flag Options.
For readers:
Matching an URL inside larger texts is already a solved problem, but for this case, a simple regex like
(?i)https?://(?:www\\.)?\\S+(?:/|\\b)
will do as OP requires to match only the URLs that start with http
or https
or HTTPs
, etc.
Swift 4
1. Create String extension
import Foundation
extension String {
var isValidURL: Bool {
guard !contains("..") else { return false }
let head = "((http|https)://)?([(w|W)]{3}+\\.)?"
let tail = "\\.+[A-Za-z]{2,3}+(\\.)?+(/(.)*)?"
let urlRegEx = head+"+(.)+"+tail
let urlTest = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", urlRegEx)
return urlTest.evaluate(with: trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces))
}
}
2. Usage
"www.google.com".isValidURL