Best way to check if a string is a URL?

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#1

I have a lot of strings. Some are url addresses and others are not. What is the best way to decide in UiPath? At the moment I am doing something like this:

if string.Substring(0,6).Contains(“http”)

Is there a better way?

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#2

Hi,

A stronger approach would be Regex (Regular expressions) or Is Match activity is quite nice skill to have for different other things.

Here is a pattern which should work for it.

(http|https):[^\s]*

Cheers

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#3

Awesome! Is “Is Match” the only option for regex in UiPath? “Is Match” seems perfect for my problem, just wondering if there are other Regex type activities I should know about.

#4

Hi,

Yes this is the equivalent, you also have the Matches activity which is the equivalent of Regex.Matches() method.

Cheers

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