Re: Grammar for URLs

[Cesar Cardenas <sr_ccd@yahoo.com>]

Maybe a should tell you that regexps would not be
enough, because I'm analising log files from a
usability tool, and they have certain complexity. They
include URLs, integers, dates, strings, quoted
strings, lists and tons of events information.

   César

--- Martijn Vermaat <mvermaat@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
> >    Does someone have a grammar for valdating a
> URL.
> 
> RFC 1738 is your starting point:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
> 
> Parsing a URL with a regular expression, as Pieter
> suggested, is not a
> trivial task.
> Of course it depends on what you want. If all you
> have to do is extract
> the domain name for example, regular expressions are
> fine.
> 
> -- 
> Martijn Vermaat
> 
> Student Computer Science                           
> www.cs.vu.nl/~mvermaat
> Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam                       
>     mvermaat@cs.vu.nl



	
		
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