用于分隔URL的符号

Question

I need to input list of URLs and afterwards to be able to split/explode it into array. The input goes through textarea or text file.

I was using "," comma symbol at first, but then found out that it is used in some URLs. Now I am using ";" semicolon symbol. I did not encounter any URLs with ";" semicolon yet, but I have read that sometimes ";" is used in URLs.

What symbol would you use to separate URLs? I need it to be as simple and intuitive as possible, because my users are not very experienced in IT.

MY ANSWER: i chose to use new line (" ", "ENTER") as a seperator - it is simple and intuitive to use and is not present in URLs

Answer 1

Have a look at the RFC 1738 specification

Taken from it:

Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.

Use any character which isn't specified as a valid unencoded character in a URL.