I'm trying to match urls for a migration, however I can't seem to have a regex which matches it.
I've tried different expressions and using regex checkers to determine where exactly it's broken, but it's not clear to me
This is my regex
https:\/\/blog\.xyz\.ca\/EN\/post\/201[0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/*\).aspx
I'm trying to match these kinds of urls (hundreds)
https://blog.xyz.ca/EN/post/2019/05/14/how-test-higher-education-test-can-test-more-test-students-and-test-sdf-the-test.aspx
https://blog.xyz.ca/EN/post/2019/05/14/how-test.aspx
https://blog.xyz.ca/EN/post/2019/05/14/how-test-higher-the-test.aspx
And remap them to something like this
https://blog.xyz.ca/2017/12/21/test-how-the-testaspx
I thought that I could match the dash section using the wildcard, but it seems to not be working and none of the generators are giving me a clear warning. I've tried https://regexr.com/ and https://www.regextester.com/
If I understand the problem right, here we might just want to have a simple expression and capture our desired URL components, according to which we would find our redirect rules, and we can likely start with:
(.+\.ca)\/EN\/post(\/[0-9]{4}\/[0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{2})(\/.+)\.aspx
and if necessary, we would be adding/reducing our constraints, and I'm guessing that no validation might be required.
Demo 1
or:
(.+\.ca)\/EN\/post(\/[0-9]{4}\/[0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{2})(\/.+)(\.aspx)
Demo 2
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I'm trying to get regexp code for the below case. I tried multiple tries but in vain.
I need to catch any URLs of the domain site.com. Tried using regexp '^site.com/*$
but it does not recognizes it.
i'm just looking for regexp code whichmatches site.com/*
With your expression ^site.com/*$ you match all strings that start with site.com and have zero or more trailing / characters (/*):
If you want to match any strings starting with site.com/ you might want to try ^site\.com/.*$:
There are already a lot of other regex questions regarding domain names on SO, but your question is not clear to me in what context you are trying to do this, or what is the actual goal you want to achieve. If you describe your needs more precisely you could probably find some answers on this forum.
I generally use a helper website like regex101.com.
Also, a few things to note, . has a special meaning in regex meaning any character, and if you wanted to capture site.com/foo you might want to use something where you are not limited to the number of characters by the end. I'd do this with groupings.
^(site\.com\/)(.+)$
You can see this in action here: https://regex101.com/r/AU2iYC/2
Your regex ^site.com/*$ is only matched follow sentences
ex) site.com/ site.com//////// site.com
because * asterisk in regex means Match 0 or more of the preceding token.
so, it should be work
^site.com\/.*$
I'm setting up URL Rewrite on an IIS and i need to match the following URLs using regex.
http://sub.mysite.com
sub.mysite.com
sub.mysite.com/
sub.mysite.com/Site1
sub.mysite.com/Site1/admin
but not:
sub.mysite.com/admin
sub.mysite.com/admin/somethingelse
sub.mysite.com/admin/admin
The site it self (sub.mysite.com) should not be "hardcoded" in the expression. Instead, it should be matched by something like .*.
I'm really blank on this one. I did find solutions to match the different URLs but once i try to combine them either none of them match or all of them do.
I hope someone can help me.
For your specific case, assuming you are matching the part after the domain (REQUEST_URI):
(?!/admin).*
(?!...) is a negative lookahead. I am not sure if it is supported in the IIS URL Rewrite engine. If not, a better approach would be to check for a complementary approach:
Or as #kirilloid said, just match /admin/? and discard (pay attention to slashes).
BTW. if you want to quickly test RegExps with a "visual" feedback, I highly recommend http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
([A-Za-z0-9]+.)+.com(?!/admin)/?([A-Za-z0-9]+/?)*
this should do the trick
In Eclipse I want to find a string, and using the normal search results in hundreds of irrelevant results. So I'm trying to use regular expressions, but they don't give me the proper results up til now.
This is what I need: find "abc.com", but not "xyz.abc.com" or "#abc.com". To make it clear, it should return www.abc.com.
I've tried the following regex but I'm not sure if this is how it should be:
[^#xyz\.]abc.com
Using a negative lookbehind should suit your needs:
(?<!xyz[.]|#)abc[.]com
Every "abc.com" that is not preceded by "xyz." nor by "#".
We're using a proprietary tracking system that requires the use of regular expressions to load third party scripts on the URLs we specify.
I wanted to check the syntax of the regex we're using to see if it looks right.
To match the following URL
/products/18/indoor-posters
We are using this rule:
.*\/products\/18\/indoor-posters.*
Does this look right? Also, if there was a query parameter on the URL, would it still work? e.g.
/products/18/indoor-posters?someParam=someValue
There's another URL to match:
/products
The rule for this is:
.*\/products
Would this match correctly?
Well, "right" is a relative term. Usually, .* is not a good idea because it matches anything, even nothing. So while these regexes will all match your example strings, they'll also match much more. The question is: What are you using the regexes for?
If you only want to check whether those substrings are present anywhere in the string, then they are fine (but then you don't need regex anyway, just check for substrings).
If you want to somehow check whether it's a valid URL, then no, the regexes are not fine because they'd also match foo-bar!$%(§$§$/products/18/indoor-postersssssss)(/$%/§($/.
If you can be sure that you'll always get a correct URL as your input and just want to check whether they match you pattern, then I'd suggest
^.*\/products$
to match any URL that ends in /products, and
^.*\/products\/18\/indoor-posters(?:\?[\w-]+=[\w-]+)?$
to match a URL that ends in /products/18/indoor-posters with an optional ?name=value bit at the end, assuming only alphanumeric characters are legal for name and value.
I have this pattern ^(?:http://)?(?:www.)?(.*?)/?(.*?)$ but it's still not perfect.
Let's say we have these urls to test against it:
example.com
example.com/
www.example.com/
http://example.com/
example.com/param
http://example.com/params/
The final output should be example.com/ if there's no parameters and example.com/params/ if with parameters. My problem is that it matches only second group. It doesn't look like /? is working otherwise it would stop on slash character. Is it possible to achieve what I want using only one pattern?
So you want the host name in $1? Your regex is ambiguous, there are many ways to match it; the regex engine will prefer the longest, leftmost possible match. If you don't want slashes in the first part, then say so. Explicitly. (?:http://)?(?:www\.)?([^/]*)?/?(.*)?$
One that I've used is:
((?:(?:https?://)?[\w\d:##%/;$()~_?\+\-=&]+|www|ftp)\.[\w\d:##%/;$()~_?\+\-=&\.]+)
The problem with URLs is that there are SO many ways one can be written, which is why the above code looks so congested. This will match all your examples above, but it will also match things like:
alkasi.jaias
Hopefully this will get you headed to where you need or want to go, and perhaps someone might be able to come up behind me and clean it up some (it's early morning, I'm getting ready for work, and am exhausted. :P)