shortening url

Wessel Bogers

hello

i need to shorten urls form form

http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Anecdotes.html
http://members.home.nl/p.wakkermans/fr_rotterdam.htm

to

http://members.home.nl/mtettero/
http://members.home.nl/p.wakkermans/

is there a way to do that in notepad

PeterJones

@Wessel-Bogers said in shortening url:

is there a way to do that in notepad

Yes. How would you do it if you were explaining the algorithm to someone? “Look for the last /, and delete everything after that”. So then create a regex that implements that.

For example, finding /\K[^/\r\n]*$ will look for a slash, then reset the match (so the slash won’t get deleted), then look for 0 or more characters that are neither slash or newlines until the end of the line. Replace that with the empty string. (And of course, regular expression must be enabled). If that pattern is matched, then the final filename will be deleted; if that pattern doesn’t match, nothing will be deleted, of course.

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guy038

Hello, @wessel-bogers, @peterjones and All,

Hi, Peter, just an other syntax :

SEARCH (?-s).+/\K.+

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Select the Regular expression search mode
Click, exclusively, on the Replace All button

Best regards,

guy038

Wessel Bogers

@guy038

it still keeps some of them

http://members.home.nl/kees.de.boer/parenteel/
http://members.home.nl/kees.de.boer/parenteel/
http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag3/
http://members.home.nl/hedi/websites/voetbal/2009_2010/BB_7/

PeterJones

@Wessel-Bogers ,

@guy038 's worked perfectly for all the example data you originally showed. We both made assumptions about what larger set your data represented (consciously or not), and gave the best regex we could that fits the data we could see with those assumptions.

If you want better help, you have to give better example data.

And I need to tweak my boilerplate again (which I’m trying to condense and make more likely for people to read), because in this shortened version, I forgot to mention that edge cases should be included in example data as well. sigh

Wessel Bogers

@PeterJones

my raw data looks like

http://members.home.nl/aadedelbroek/,http://members.home.nl/aadedelbroek/
http://members.home.nl/haven.21/,http://members.home.nl/haven.21/
http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Anecdotes.html,http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Anecdotes.html
http://members.home.nl/p.wakkermans/fr_rotterdam.htm,http://members.home.nl/p.wakkermans/fr_rotterdam.htm
http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Genealogie.html,http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Genealogie.html
http://members.home.nl/aadedelbroek/parenteel_edelbroek_werkhoven/parenteel%20edelbroek-000003-p-br.htm,http://members.home.nl/aadedelbroek/parenteel_edelbroek_werkhoven/parenteel%20edelbroek-000003-p-br.htm
http://members.home.nl/peter-simonis/nieuwsbrief9.htm,http://members.home.nl/peter-simonis/nieuwsbrief9.htm
http://members.home.nl/m.tettero/,http://members.home.nl/m.tettero/
http://members.home.nl/pcmvandijk/biography%20tegels.html,http://members.home.nl/pcmvandijk/biography%20tegels.html
http://members.home.nl/eddy.megens/Mijn%20webs/,http://members.home.nl/eddy.megens/Mijn%20webs/
http://members.home.nl/peter-simonis/nieuwsbrief1.htm,http://members.home.nl/peter-simonis/nieuwsbrief1.htm
http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/stand1A.html,http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/stand1A.html
http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag3/31A.html,http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag3/31A.html
http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/mitche.htm,http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/mitche.htm
http://members.home.nl/eltjo.huizenga/guestbook1.html,http://members.home.nl/eltjo.huizenga/guestbook1.html
http://members.home.nl/martwies/Niedersachsen.htm,http://members.home.nl/martwies/Niedersachsen.htm
http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/11A.html,http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/11A.html
http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/landis.htm,http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/landis.htm
http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/beller.htm,http://members.home.nl/c.peppelenbos/beller.htm
http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/slem.htm,http://members.home.nl/gvandorst/uitslag/slem.htm
http://members.home.nl/w.peulen/,http://members.home.nl/w.peulen/
http://members.home.nl/heitoomar/vrijbridgeOOo.html,http://members.home.nl/heitoomar/vrijbridgeOOo.html
http://members.home.nl/janenien/spares.htm,http://members.home.nl/janenien/spares.htm
http://members.home.nl/haven.21/Altijd%20hard%20gewerkt.pdf,http://members.home.nl/haven.21/Altijd%20hard%20gewerkt.pdf
http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Genealogie%EBn.html,http://members.home.nl/mtettero/Genealogie%EBn.html
http://members.home.nl/d.bruls/reisverslag2.html,http://members.home.nl/d.bruls/reisverslag2.html
http://members.home.nl/cda-boz/SMR.html,http://members.home.nl/cda-boz/SMR.html

a small sample

PeterJones

Every post, you’ve made it more confusing. You didn’t used to have commas, and now I don’t know what you want to replace and what you don’t.

If you want more help than what Guy and I have already given, you are going to have to make your desires more clear.

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Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get.

guy038

Hi, @wessel-bogers, @peterjones and All,

@wessel-bogers, and All, when, you ask for modifications of data, with regular expresions, please, please …

Give us a fairly large amount of your INPUT text ( as you did,@wessel-bogers, in your previous post )
Give us, also, the expected OUTPUT text, from your specific INPUT test. That’s the KEY point !

Then, from the differences between these two texts, even if you cannot express simply yourself, regarding your goal, we should be able to guess your needs, most of the time ;-))

Remember : If you clearly defined the rules to process, in your INPUT text, half the job is already done ;-))

See you later,

Best Regards,

guy038