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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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re = /\b(^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/127[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/(10)([.](25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{1,2}|[0-9]{1,2})){3}|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/localhost|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/172[.](0?16|0?17|0?18|0?19|0?20|0?21|0?22|0?23|0?24|0?25|0?26|0?27|0?28|0?29|0?30|0?31)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/192[.]168[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/169[.]254[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/::1|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/[fF][cCdD][0-9a-fA-F]{2}(?:[:][0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}){0,7}|^(http|https|wss|ws|ftp|ftps):\/\/[fF][eE][89aAbB][0-9a-fA-F](?:[:][0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}){0,7})(?:\/([789]|1?[0-9]{2}))?\b/im str = '# loopback http://127.0.0.0:80 https://127.0.0.0000 # only three digits supported here # Localhost http://localhost:25 https://localhost:8080 HTTP://LoCALhosT:99 # Case insensitive ws://localhost:7777 wss://localhost:9200 https://google.com/blah/localhost/ # This should not alert # Web Sockets ws://localhost:2121/sockjs-node wss://localhost:5882/ # FTP ftp://192.168.0.1 ftps://127.0.0.1 ftps://localhost # A wss://10.0.0.1/10 ws://10.255.22.33 # B http://172.17.100.155/32 # 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 http://172.15.1.1 # This should not fire http://172.32.1.1 # This should not fire # C https://192.168.1.1/random/path wss://192.168.1.255 # IPv6 http://fc00:833e:d648:f196:5c6c:1d9a:a14b:0d59 # Private IPv6 http://fc01:67e5::6a66:34a7 http://FC02:5fcf:e093:bb10:ce77:b5c9::/112 http://fc03:49bd:b7c1:5685:fa0a:87e9::2/128 http://fc04:::2 hmpf http://0de9:b022:883f:2c3c:7dba:a184:7576:4531 # public IP addresses http://04e4:e53b:0c2f:2990:27ad:0464:6dd3:b6b3 http://0319:3b4a:546e:d480:4814:f885:3396:bba2 http://5394:03f5:606f:273e:e343:d94a:610a:3f2e http://63cd:ad1f:7ffb:62c7:cc17:6e20:9b59:2f7d False Positives Check # Should not match any https://c091ab33-ae6f-425e-9b41-a50d59eef025.organizations.api.brightspace.com/888654/image?version=c44605a0-fc75-4c49-85b6-e43cb5f42978 /course-images/images/a02b640d-fd9e-428e-8e77-5ac9c61d21b2 https://10207287.fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=10207287;type=counter;cat=uship0;ord=4880235517192;gtm=2wg3h0;auiddc=2059049732.1617109349;u1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uship.com%2Fregister%2F;u2=undefined;u3=undefined;u4=undefined;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uship.com%2Fregister%2F # More "crap" wss://30.168.1.255.1 wss://127.1 https://192.168.1.256 wss://-1.2.3.4 wss://1.1.1.1. wss://3...3 wss://255.255.255.255 wss://0.0.0.0 wss://1.1.1.01 # decimal vs. octal mix http://172.031.33.33 http://172.021.133.01 # octal - not supported here http://0254.0021.0062.0041 # Should not fire # link-local addresses IPv4 http://169.254.1.0 http://169.254.254.255 # link-local addresses IPv6 http://fe90:1234::/64 http://feaf:ffff::/128 http://febf:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff ' # Print the match result str.scan(re) do |match| puts match.to_s end

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Ruby, please visit: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Regexp.html