Notepad ++中的RegEx删除或替换文本范围

Question

I just go through the RegEx answers to the questions by other mates but couldn't find any solution for the problem in my case. I also read the Regular Expressions references given by some of the helpers here but I was not able to understand properly.

I am editing my sitemaps of websites. In the sitemap, I have some links in the form:

http://foo.com/download/something-after-download-different-for-each-link-12-23-2014.html?id=my5sIUosfiQ&itag=18

And I want to change all those links to simply:

http://foo.com/download/?id=my5sIUosfiQ&itag=18

Here, ?id= and itag= values are different for each link. So, these should not get changed for each link which are already mentioned.

Plus, the part something-after-download-different-for-each-link-12-23-2014.html is also different for each link as every file is different to download. So, I want to basically remove the this part from each link. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Some things that might work -
( Note that the odds of finding an errant /download/ not followed
by non-whitespace nor question mark, then a question mark,
make this virtually impossible to match anything other than the url's )

If np++ uses the \\K construct you could use this
Find: /download/\\K[^\\s?]+(?=\\?)
Replace: nothing

If it doesn't, you could use this
Find: (?<=/download/)[^\\s?]+(?=\\?)
Replace: nothing

or, even better
Find: (/download/)[^\\s?]+(?=\\?)
Replace: $1

Answer 2

You should find

http://foo\.com/download/[^?]*\?id=(.*)

and replace it with

http://foo\.com/download/\?$1

This grabs everything between ...download/ and ?id=... and removes it.

Answer 3

Enable regex and use this search & replace:

Find:

(http://foo.com/download/)(.*)(\?id=my5sIUosfiQ&itag=18)

Replace with:

\1\3