Hi,

I've searched these forums for answers to this, but unfourtunately haven't found anything that directly answers my question.

We need to append a parameter to all urls from a specific domain. This is for email newsletters so it is being achieved using find and replace in a text editor. We currently use the following expression:

Find - (http.+example.com.+\?.+?)(")

Replace - \1&id=1234\2

 

This works to append a parameter to a url string that already has other parameters. e.g.

http://www.example.com?param=first

converts to

http://www.example.com?param=first&id=1234

 

Is there a way we can construct an expression that will append a parameter to any url, but will maintain the correct syntax. For example:

http://www.example.com

converts to

http://www.example.com?id=1234

AND

http://www.example.com?param=first

converts to

http://www.example.com?param=first&id=1234

 

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for any help

Rich

 

 

 

 

No, just using a single simple replace it can not be done, because you have different replacement values. One prefixed with an ampersand, one with a question mark.

You'll either need code to determine which replacement to perform or mutliple passes with different replacements.

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Michael

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