Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

URL and mailto

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

/
(mailto:[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$)|(((?:https?)|(?:ftp)):\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,})
/
gm

Description

RegExp to match valid URL of http://, https://, ftp://, and mailto: protocols

Submitted by Sergey Klinov - 3 years ago