How to create a reg exp to parse such url?

Question

So we have http://127.0.0.1:4773/robot10382.flv?action=read we need to get out from it protocol, ip/adress, port, actual url (robot10382.flv here) and actions (action=read here) how to parse all that into string vars in one reg exp?

Answer 1

I'm surprised that AS3 does not include proper URL parsing facilities. To put it simply, it is not easy to safely parse a URL using an RE. Here's an example of doing it though.