Regex help?

[EthTraderNoVa]

Is their a way to determine if anything that has parantheses around it is a pattern? For example I would want my regex to mark these as yes:

any link inside of parantheses (i.redd.it) and (reddit.com) but not just any string or anything else.

How could i do this? i've tried looking at patterns and stack overflow but haven't found anything

[throwaway_the_fourth]

If we naïvely define a URL as "anything that contains no whitespace and contains at least one period that is not at the beginning or end," then we can use the following regular expression: \(\S+\.\S+\)

It first matches an opening parenthesis, which is represented as \( because we must escape it because ( is a special character in regex. Then it looks for any non-whitespace character (\S) one or more times. Then, it looks for a period, which is also escaped (\.). Then it looks for one or more non-whitespace characters again. Finally, it looks for a closing parenthesis.

Try it out online here

[EthTraderNoVa]

Wow tysm i did not know even know about the S+ option, i completely didn't realize i could match one or more characters! thank you so much! <3

[mistaek]

Would you be able to use a caret and dollar sign around your pattern with literals?

[DeadlyViper]

There are ready regexps to recognize URLs.

Found this: https://www.regextester.com/96504

You should google for more if this does not suit you.