[REQ] Replace certain content in file.

[Brutal 164]

Here's the situation:

 

1- I scrape youtube video descriptions and save to a file.

 

2- Now, I want to use those scraped descriptions in my content submitter, but many of them have url's.

 

3- I need a way to delete or replace ALL urls within that file, but i have no idea what the url will be or where it will be in the file.

 

3a- Clarification... This is a bot for other people to use, so I can't know what descriptions they might scrape, so the question is how do i find/replace text (url's in this case) in a file when i do not know exactly what the text is, or exactly where it is?

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

[JohnB 255]

If you are only trying to replace urls's, you should be able to use regex for that. In Ubot you would use the $replace regular expression function.

 

Here is an example of a regex string looking for urls within full text:

 

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

 

 

John

[Brutal 164]

Thanks John, I'll give it a go.