Can someone please help me improve this regex so that it captures everything that starts with http://, https://, or www and then continues until it reaches a ' or ". It includes punctuation and is case-insensitive.
Here is the regular expression right now:
(wwww|https?://)
/(?:https?:\/\/|www)[^'"]*/i
I escaped the slashes since they could conflict if you use /.../ notation. [^'"] is an inverted character class that allows everything but quotes.
Edit: I removed the caret to match any occurrence of the pattern, :? to make the group non-capturing.
@(www|https?://).*?(?=['"])@i
The .*? makes the quantifier reluctant so it will stop at the first quote rather than the last.
The following regex will work:
(?:https?:\/\/|www)[^'"]*
You can walk through the details of the match at www.debuggex.com.