30-seconds-of-code/snippets/isAbsoluteURL.md

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isAbsoluteURL	string,utility,browser,url,intermediate

Returns true if the given string is an absolute URL, false otherwise.

Use a regular expression to test if the string is an absolute URL.

const isAbsoluteURL = str => /^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:/.test(str);

isAbsoluteURL('https://google.com'); // true
isAbsoluteURL('ftp://www.myserver.net'); // true
isAbsoluteURL('/foo/bar'); // false