Remove URLs from string

Language:: PHP Type::#type/snippet Back-end

Description:: When I see the amount of URLs people try to leave in my blog comments to get traffic and/or backlinks, I think I should definitely give a go to this snippet!

 $string = preg_replace('/\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|$!:,.;]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/i', '', $string);

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