Regular Expressions 101

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

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(?n)^(https?:\/\/)?((?!-)[a-z\d-]{2,63}(?<!-)\.)+[a-z]{2,24}(\.[a-z]{2})?(\/(([a-z\.]+\/?)+|[\w-]*\?(&?\w+=[^&#]+)+|#\w+(\/\w+)?)+)?$
/
gi

Description

Match all valid URLs

Examples:

  • Valid URLs:
  1. https://www.example.com/
  2. http://subdomain.example.net/
  3. https://www.subdomain.example.com.uk/params
  • Invalid URLs:
  1. htp://invalid.com/
  2. https//invalid.net/
  3. https://invalid.org./
  4. http://.invalid_url.net/

See all 62 URL samples in "Unit Tests"!

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Submitted by Henriii102 - a year ago (Last modified a year ago)