url_detect()?

[hrbrmstr]

vis a vis http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33773299/r-regex-to-extract-url-from-text

[Ironholds]

Ooh, painful. We'd have to do it in R for /that/ use case. We could do it in C++, if we wanted actual URLs, but those aren't actual URLs.

[hrbrmstr]

somewhat painful. If we go for "best guess regex" then we can use gruber's fairly-comprehensive-but-not-too-aggressive regex for it https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502 and https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611

[Ironholds]

Good idea! We could always have url_detect(x, strict = FALSE), where strict determines if it relies on a :// find (easy enough in C++, and fast) or a regex (harder and slow)

[Ironholds]

Could we use stringi for this?

[Ironholds]

Note to self: we can use C++11 for this, since everyone and their pet dog seems to be into C++11 these days.

[hrbrmstr]

FWIW our pet cat is also into C++11.

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