I suck at regular expressions

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
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Stale
Domain
tooling

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No repository file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by reviewing the issue and its discussion for the intended implementation context, then verify matching and replacement behavior against both example strings; done means the requested URL substring can be identified and replaced reliably.

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Description

I'm like an NBA player who for some reason can't shoot foul shots. Only with me it's regular expressions. I used to do them all the time. Now I'm no good at it for some reason. Please help. Thanks.

I want to find a url like this in a string:

https://t.co/B8vzgwK5iX

An example of its usage:

How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables. https://t.co/ROcD5Tsz4f #giftlink

In other words the substring will always begin with https://t.co/, will be followed by a string of uppercase and lowercase alpha and numeric characters, followed by the end of the string or a whitespace character.

I need to be able to get the actual url and be able to easily replace it with another string.

Thanks! 😄

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