Regular Expression Extract Url From String Using Regex.Matches() In C#

Here's how to extract url(s) from a string or document using Regex.Matches() method. The Regex.Matches() method returns an array object MatchCollection in which you can access individual elements using it's index.
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string pattern = "(http|ftp|https):\\/\\/[\\w\\-_]+(\\.[\\w\\-_]+)+([\\w\\-\\.,@?^=%&amp;:/~\\+#]*[\\w\\-\\@?^=%&amp;/~\\+#])?"; string Input = "<<abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\"abcd\" href=\"https://mediatemple.net\"" + "Sample text for testing>http://regexr.com/foo.html?q=bar>"; string url1 = string.Empty; string url2 = string.Empty; if (Regex.Matches(Input, pattern).Count > 0) { MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(Input, pattern); url1 = matches[0].Value; url2 = matches[1].Value; }