GREP – Removing the trailing forward slash from URLs
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Hello all,
I’m trying to solve a bug in my current code to remove the trailing slash from URLs in publications:
Find: (https://.*|https://.*|www\..*)(/)
Replace: $1This works fine for all standard web URLs (e.g. http://www.google.com/), but not for sub-pages (e.g. http://www.google.com/example/), where it will select the first URL, not the last.
Help is much appreciated – I’ve been trying all sorts of weird and wonderful things without success!
Thank you :)
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This is a bit tricky, cause otherwise slashes are removed in the middle, if you start a GREP a second time. Did you realize, that your GREP will find content between two URLs, cause the “*” is greedy?
Try this one:
((https?:|www\.).+)/(?!\w)This may not work in every case.
Kai
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Hi Kai,
Thanks very much for your post! You’re right that I’d been getting the problem of finding everything between two URLs as well, which is unfortunately still the case with your solution (though it’s definitely an improvement on my code!), when a URL is followed by punctuation within a paragraph.
E.g. Sample sample (www.url.com/) sample sample sample – see http://www.url.com/.
Thanks again though, it’s a good enough workaround for the documents I’ll be working on, as I can catch the rest manually.
Sarah
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