c# link parser

// stackoverflow.com/q/10576686/c-sharp-regex-pattern-to-extract-urls-from-given-string-not-full-html-urls-but
 
//You can write some pretty simple regular expressions to handle this, or go via more traditional string splitting + LINQ methodology.
//Regex
 
var linkParser = new Regex(@"\b(?:https?://|www\.)\S+\b", RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
var rawString = "house home go www.monstermmorpg.com nice hospital http://www.monstermmorpg.com this is incorrect url http://www.monstermmorpg.commerged continue";
foreach(Match m in linkParser.Matches(rawString))
    MessageBox.Show(m.Value);
 
 
//Explanation Pattern:
/*
\b       -matches a word boundary (spaces, periods..etc)
(?:      -define the beginning of a group, the ?: specifies not to capture the data within this group.
https?://  - Match http or https (the '?' after the "s" makes it optional)
|        -OR
www\.    -literal string, match www. (the \. means a literal ".")
)        -end group
\S+      -match a series of non-whitespace characters.
\b       -match the closing word boundary.
Basically the pattern looks for strings that start with http:// OR https:// OR www. (?:https?://|www\.) and then matches all the characters up to the next whitespace.
*/
//Traditional String Options
 
var rawString = "house home go www.monstermmorpg.com nice hospital http://www.monstermmorpg.com this is incorrect url http://www.monstermmorpg.commerged continue";
var links = rawString.Split("\t\n ".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Where(s => s.StartsWith("http://") || s.StartsWith("www.") || s.StartsWith("https://"));
foreach (string s in links)
    MessageBox.Show(s);