Incorrect output from text parser

[Alok]

What are you trying to achieve?

i am trying to parse text that has emails, website urls, etc using text parser and this regex, https?://(?!lh[1-6].|maps.|lh\d+.).?.[a-z]{2,}(/[a-zA-Z0-9-_/?&=%.])?, however i am getting output like the below: [
{
“i”: 1,
“$2”: “/Place”
},
{
“i”: 2,
“$1”: “maps.”,
“$2”: “/maps/api/staticmap”
},
{
“i”: 3,
“$1”: “maps.”,
“$2”: “/maps/api/staticmap”
},
{
“i”: 4,
“$1”: “lh3.”,
“$2”: “/”
},
{
“i”: 5,
“$1”: “lh4.”,
“$2”: “/”
it should be matching only valid urls. Can you pls tell me how to resolve this issue.

Steps taken so far

i tried changing the regular expression but doesnt help

[abhilash_naik]

Hi Alok, welcome to the community.

You need to use two text parsers one for emails and one for urls when you do make sure you select global match and multiline option. I think the regex you are using is just capturing the paths of the urls but you can try with different regular expressions.

Another way of doing it is by using text parser’s match elements module, just select the predefined patter and you can extract it from the text

[Alok]

thanks Abhilash, however this regex should pick up whole urls (like http://…com, or https://xyz.com, it’s not doing that also

[Alok]

@Alok

$2”: “/Place”

why it’s picking up these, "$2”: “/Place”. what does $2 mean. this output is not useful to me, i am expecting full urls

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

Could you go to regex101.com, paste in your Pattern at the top and paste a complete/full example text you are trying to match from below it?

Then, save the regex example and share the link with us here.

This will allow others to assist you here with your pattern. Thanks!