Java provides a package, java.util.regex, to manipulate regular expressions.

Posted: January 7th, 2022

Java provides a package, java.util.regex, to manipulate

regular expressions. Write a regular expression for URLs and then

evaluate a set of URLs against your regular expression. This

assignment involves programming, since input structure testing

without automation is pointless.

(a) Write (or find) a regular expression for a URL. Your regular

expression does not need to be so general that it accounts for

every possible URL, but give your best effort (for example “*”

will not be considered a good effort). You are strongly

encouraged to do some web surfing to find some candidate