Yet another regex question.

[siliconmike]

Can anyone help me build a regex for these 2 problems:

Find 'x' if url starts with x and ends with .htm
eg.. xajgkdls3j5j223dmk.htm should match 'x'

Find '.htm' if url starts with x and ends with .htm
eg.. x45362adgAgdd346.htm should match '.htm'

Thanks
Mike

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Can anyone help me build a regex for these 2 problems:

Find 'x' if url starts with x and ends with .htm
eg.. xajgkdls3j5j223dmk.htm should match 'x'

What on earth do you mean by "Find 'x'"?

Find '.htm' if url starts with x and ends with .htm
eg.. x45362adgAgdd346.htm should match '.htm'

Ditto: What do you mean by "Find '.htm'"?

Also: How do you recognize a URL?

 

[siliconmike]

What on earth do you mean by "Find"

find = match

I'm trying to use mod_rewrite of Apache to disguise dynamic pages as
static ones.

so if I match ".htm" successfully in "x45362.htm" (beginning with an x)
then I can replace .htm with .php

Mike

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I'm trying to use mod_rewrite of Apache to disguise dynamic pages as
static ones.

so if I match ".htm" successfully in "x45362.htm" (beginning with an x)
then I can replace .htm with .php

This is how it can be done in Perl:

s/^(x.+\.)htm$/$1php/;

If you need help to do it using Apache's rewriting engine,
alt.apache.configuration might be a suitable newsgroup.

 

[siliconmike]

alt.apache.configuration migh....

Thanks for pointing that out. I'd got lost.
My problem is solved.. Thanks
Mike