Don't do all this. Use NSDataDetector instead. (Sent from my iPhone.)
-- Conrad Shultz On Mar 3, 2012, at 16:15, R <r4eem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building a twitter app for the iphone and want to detect valid > internet url's and set their character count to <= 20. > > I'm using NSRegularExpression to build an array of all NSRanges in the > text field that start with "http". I then use NSScanner to scan until > it finds whitespace or end of line characters for each > range.location. I then place this new subString into a NSURL to > validate that it does not return nil. > > I'm finding that NSURL pretty much likes everything..... > http://www.cnn.thePiratesWillWinTheWorldSeries is happy. > > Is there a good way to validate a NSURL for the internet, short of > pinging? > > My next step is to find the end of the substring, count back three > characters and check for com,edu or org... seems clunky and inaccurate > for future internet standards. > > Thanks -- Ron > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/conrad%40synthetiqsolutions.com > > This email sent to con...@synthetiqsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
