Extracting SWF/Flash link from String - Regular Expression

Question

I made this code :

^http:.*.swf$

to extract swf link from string : starting from http and ending in swf

is it ideal ? or are there better rules to do that ?

thanks

Answer 1

If you know that it will always start and end with that, it's fine but make sure you escape (\) the dot.

^http:.*?\.swf$