[thelist] RegExp in ASP for validating e-mail and URLs?

[Peter Bornhall]

Hi Joshua!

Your point is well aimed, and I'm sure I could have searched the web 
more than I did.  However, I haven't really had the time nor the 
faintest idea of how to determine if a regex I've found actually DOES 
what I want it to do.  Besides, you've got to know WHAT to search for to 
get the best results.

Many of you may disagree with me, but I'm not much for reusing code, 
especially code I can't tell for sure what it does.  That's why I came 
here in the first place.  I'd rather ask here and get something that 
works instead of scouring the web not knowing what the regex does and 
why, if it even works.  I did state that regular expressions is not my 
cup of tea, and I would stretch as far to claim that I know hardly 
anything about them.  I know(?) how to recognize them and I know they're 
very powerful, but I haven't had time, or rather felt devoted enough to 
spend as much time learning as needed to create (again) an *efficient* 
regex (as I'm sure there are inefficient ways of using regex's too).

If anyone is still willing to help, given that most of you seem to think 
that I'm out for collecting e-mail addys to be used in some nefarious 
and malicious way, I'm still here.  I'm sure I could compress my 
"thinking-out-loud" specs to Alex for anyone who is willing...

Otherwise, I'll happily accept links to specific pages (mail me 
privately if you wish) that handles this particular question.  ASP and 
regexes for making (all kinds of) URLs into clickable links in a given 
string (text chunk).  Let me once again say that I'm *NOT* interested in 
any kind of URL or e-mail extraction, be it from text or webpages...

Regards,
Peter Bornhall
Webmaster of www.bikesight.com


Joshua Olson wrote (in response to Alex Beston):
> Alex,
> 
> I'm not sure that what you said is 100% accurate.  In my case, the reason I
> didn't chime in was because of the question itself.  A quick googling of
> "URL Regex" and "Email Regex" provides a large number of answers to the OP
> questions.  I just figured somebody would beat me to the punch so I took a
> pass.
> 
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