RegEx Help

  • crimony

    (@crimony)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    For reasons unknown, the following regex redirect with the “Redirection” plugin does not work:

    Redirection Rule (regex):
    Source URL: /holiday-craft/thanksgiving/(.*)/(.*)
    Target URL: /$2

    Browser URL Input: /holiday-craft/thanksgiving/kids-table/thanksgiving-placemats-kids/
    Expected Result: /thanksgiving-placemats-kids/
    Actual Result: /

    Any ideas?

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    The expression (.*) is greedy and will match everything until the end of the URL. Therefore the second (.*) does nothing and so $2 will be empty.

    If you change the first (.*) to be (.*?) then it will match up to the first /.

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