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zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on June 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: In search of the perfect URL validation regex

No, it's not, URIs are regular, so using regular expressions is perfectly fine.

6cxs2hd6 on June 23, 2014 [–]

Good point. You're right, it's not as bad an idea.

(I still think it's not a great idea. Being regular isn't necessarily the same as being parseable with a maintainable regex.)

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