[Rails] Re: Regular expression: How do I allow forward slashes?

Yes, that did it. Thank you.
No idea how I try everything and overlook the simplest solution, duh.

And, Thank you to everyone else that weighed in as well, definitely
some other options to look into.

Side note: Anybody know why the period doesn't have to be escaped?
Like just "." allows the dot to be input, as well as "\."
So, [-\w\_\.\/] works just as [-\w\_.\/]. Why is this?

On Dec 19, 3:41 am, frogstarr78 <frogstar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried escaping them "\/"?
>
> On Dec 18, 11:01 pm, AlwaysCharging <goodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In my app, I allow users to submit urls.  They (of course) need the
> > ability to submit urls with a forward slash, "/", but whats the
> > regular expression to allow them to do that?
>
> > I currently use:
>
> > validates_format_of :url, :with => /^[-\w\_.]+$/i
>
> > to only allow alphanumerics, dashes, underscores, and dots to prevent
> > cross site scripting when I later reconstruct these urls, but I can't
> > figure out how to allow "/" as well.
>
> > Any ideas?

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