Can NSDataDetector be made to detect URLs but not email addresses?

Question

I've implemented NSDataDetector to detect URLs, but it includes email addresses as well. Is there an easy way to make it not detect emails, but all other URLs?

Answer 1

Well, email addresses are not URLs. mailto:someone@some.where.com is a URL which contains an email address. So, to answer your question: Check whether your URL begins with mailto:. If it does, ignore it. If for some reason you're picking up email addresses as URLs, you probably have some parsing bug...

See here about regular expressions for URLs.