How to insert text at the end of every url?

Rob K

I have a big text file that contains urls that all begin with the same domain name but vary in the rest of the url, is there any way to search for the line beginning with http://test.domain and insert text at the end of the url ? i just need to add some text to the end of each url.

the urls are contained on seperate lines and are not clashing with anything so a simple method of finding the http://test.domain at the start of the line and inserting text at the end of the line will work .

PeterJones

This makes the assumption that there will never be a space inside your URL. For robustness, I allowed spaces to optionally occur before the URL, but I assumed nothing other than space came before the URL. If there is something after the URL, it must have a space before it.

if I have data like the following:

http://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg blah
    http://test.domain:8080/4/3.html blah
    http://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg
http://test.domain:8080/4/3.html
https://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg blah
    https://test.domain:8080/4/3.html blah
    https://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg
https://test.domain:8080/4/3.html

and run

FIND = (?i-s)^\h*https?://test.domain\S*
REPLACE = $0 new stuff
MODE = regular expression

it will become

http://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg new stuff blah
    http://test.domain:8080/4/3.html new stuff blah
    http://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg new stuff
http://test.domain:8080/4/3.html new stuff
https://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg new stuff blah
    https://test.domain:8080/4/3.html new stuff blah
    https://test.domain/a/b/c?d%3Defg new stuff
https://test.domain:8080/4/3.html new stuff

I think that’s close to what you want. If it’s not what you want, you’ll have to follow my advice below to make things more clear as to what you want.

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PeterJones

@Rob-K ,

I just said:

FIND = (?i-s)^\h*https?://test.domain\S*

REPLACE = $0 new stuff

The FIND would be better as:

FIND = (?i-s)^\h*https?://test\.domain\S*

Quick explanation of the regex:

the stuff in parentheses set up options to make it case insensitive and to not let . match newline
^ means the match starts at the beginning of the line
\h* allows 0 or more horizontal spaces (tabs and space characters) before the url
https?:// allows either http or https
\. escapes the ., so it means a literal domain separator, not the regex wildcard character
\S* means that there can be 0 or more additional non-space characters after the domain; since the end-of-line sequence counts as space character, it will stop at the end of the line if there’s nothing after the URL
$0 in the REPLACE means the entire matched text – so everything from beginning of line to just before the first space (or end-of-line).
new stuff indicates the new text you want to add
This means that the replacement will still include the original URL, plus the new stuff.