Regular expression to replace part of URL

Question

I have over 5000 lines like so:

www.example.com/de/germany/germany-company-domaincheck
www.example.com/de/germany/germany-company-question
www.example.com/de/germany/index
www.example.com/de/germany-page
www.example.com/de/france/france-company-domaincheck
www.example.com/de/france/france-company-question
www.example.com/de/france/index
www.example.com/de/france/france-page

I need to replace:

www.example.com/de/germany/germany-company-domaincheck
www.example.com/de/france/france-company-domaincheck
etc

With

www.example.com/de/enquiry

Unfortunately I am useless at regular expressions and don't know where to start. Using sublime text what is the correct regular expression to find all occurrences of /?/?-company-domaincheck

Getting from zero to a point where you can match /?/?-company-domaincheck with regular expressions would take you a few hours of reading introduction level how-tos at most. So this question is basically telling us that you don't want to do that. That's ... not a good starting point, really. — Tomalak
– Tomalak, Commented Oct 30, 2014 at 17:22

jp-jee · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-30 17:33:16Z

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The regex

/(www\.example\.com)(\/\w+){3}(-company-domaincheck)/g

will match any of

www.example.com/?/?/?-company-domaincheck

(assuming that ? only contains [A-Za-z]), as in your examples.

To match another number of folders in between, replace {3} by the desired number (or by + for any).

edited Oct 30, 2014 at 17:33

answered Oct 30, 2014 at 17:26

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2 Comments

Brian Stephens Over a year ago

You need to escape the dots. And the parens are unnecessary except for the repeated group.

jp-jee Over a year ago

+1 for "escape dots". Thanks, edited my answer. Although parentheses are unnecessary, they make the regex look more clean (in my point of view).

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