Expression Needed

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Hey gang,

 

I need a regex expression to trim a url string to its root, removing everything... subdomains, http, trailing backslash, folder, etc.

 

 

Ex: all the below should return abc.com

 

http://www.abc.com

123.abc.com/

www.abc.com/123.html

http://www.abc.com/123/456

 

Is this doable? Anyone have such a creature in their magic bag of tricks? http://ubotstudio.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif

 

TIA

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[LoWrIdErTJ - BotGuru 904]

http://regexlib.com

Is a great repository of regex statements.

 

Best thing I found to do is:

 

Make sure each url has some sort of consistency

If some have http have the others have it as well (makes it easier when building specific regex statements)

 

I haven't been able to find a regex solution that will specifically (without getting really in depth) that will pull just the domain.

 

However one that will pull sub domain, domain, and tld

\b([a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)+[a-z]{2,}\b

 

 

Your problem will be the inconsistency's.

As in with sub domains existing or not? www is considered by regex as a sub domain

[odeesuba 24]

Try to expand on this

 

load html("http://www.abc.com 
123.abc.com/
www.abc.com/123.html
http://www.abc.com/123/456")
add list to list(%Domains, $find regular expression($document text, "[0-9A-Za-z]+\\.(com|net|org)"), "Delete", "Global")

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Ah... very nice! That is something I can definitely work with!

 

Thanks guys!!

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