Reply To: Shortest GREP Pattern to address URLs and e-mail addresses?

@ Tournier —

I forgot all about the negative metacharacters. It's not really well documented but that covers off anything that isn't a white space character (which might be overkill, but meh).

@Jongware —

All those extra long URLs must have been truncated when I pasted the example text in there. That wasn't the intention… hehe

It's not THAT important to find the shortest pattern, just a little experiment. A couple new variations that I've come up with. Instead of word boundary I used beginning and end of word metacharacters, which automatically exclude any punctuation, periods, ellipsis (plural?), commas, etc. The one problem I run into wiith any pattern I've tried is when an acronym appears, like m.d.

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URLs or all addresses — \<\S+\.\S+\>/?

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