Regular expressions and matching URLs with metacharacters

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Published on 2010-03-26T00:51:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 3:53 UTC
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I'm having trouble finding a regular expression that matches the following String.

Korben;http://feeds.feedburner.com/KorbensBlog-UpgradeYourMind?format=xml;1

One problem is escaping the question mark. Java's pattern matcher doesn't seem to accept \? as a valid escape sequence but it also fails to work with the tester at myregexp.com.

Here's what I have so far:

([a-zA-Z0-9])+;http://([a-zA-Z0-9./-]+);[0-9]+

Any suggestions?

Edit: The original intent was to match all URLs that could be found after the first semi colon.

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