Replace a text with regular expression in notepad++

Question

I want to replace all the url's which are starting with something like www.sitename.com/xxx/xxx.html and the last part of the string is different on each url. Is there any formula in notepad++ which replace the whole string with "#" or any custom character ?

Answer 1

Bring on the Find and Replace dialog, select Replace ( Ctrl+H )

Search mode: Regular expression

Find what: www\\.sitename\\.com/\\w+/\\w+\\.html

Replace with: # (or anything you wish)

This will replace URLs of the type you've provided in question ( www.sitename.com/xxx/xxx.html )

Answer 2

Press Ctrl+H to bring up the replace window. Enter this in the Find what: section:

www\.sitename\.com(/\w+)*\.?\w*

and anything you want (#) in the Replace with: . Make sure that Search Mode is on Regulare Expression and the hit the Find next , Replace or Replace All

This will replace all the URLs beginning with www.sitename.com and ending with and extension (.html, .jpg, ...)