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Validate a Web Address with RegExp

/ Published in: ActionScript 3

From the tutorial, Validating Various Input Data in Flash (http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/actionscript/validating-various-input-data-in-flash/)

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public function checkWebAddress(address:String):Boolean
{
    var protocol:String     = "(https?:\/\/|ftp:\/\/)?";
    var domainName:String   = "([a-z0-9.-]{2,})";
    var domainExt:String    = "([a-z]{2,6})";
    var web:RegExp          = new RegExp('^' + protocol + '?' + domainName + "\." + domainExt + '$', "i");
 
    return web.test(address);
}