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Re: [apps-discuss] Fun with URLs and regex

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 28 January 2015 01:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Fun with URLs and regex
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Fixed, thanks!


> On 19 Jan 2015, at 9:52 am, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> 
> On 01/07/2015 04:35 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> I’ve updated my Python script that serves as a translation of ABNF for URIs into regex.
>> 
>> https://gist.github.com/mnot/138549
> 
> I've attempted to convert this to JavaScript:
> 
> https://url.spec.whatwg.org/reference-implementation/uri-validate.js
> 
> I've built a web page that makes use of it:
> 
> https://url.spec.whatwg.org/reference-implementation/uri-validate.html
> 
> - - -
> 
> Issues I encountered the process:
> 
> 1) file_auth_path is defined with four instead of three double quotes
> 
> 2) the last re.match rejects inputs that do not have a hash sign
> 
> 3) extra, and potentially misleading, output is provided if instr starts with the characters "absolute:".
> 
> - Sam Ruby

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