Hi,

Although technically reasonably competent - I am a newbie to the world of RegEx.

A have a website/blog and have been tidying up my URL's and have been having trouble in creating a regex to redirect URL's such as this one:

"/2007/04/06/rantings-%e2%80%9cmore-wailing%e2%80%9d-written-3407/"

to:

"/2007/04/06/rantings-more-wailing/"

It's the "%e2%80%9c" in the URL that's causing me issues.

 

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

 

Robert
 

 

Hi,

easy possible to filter out with preg_replace():

 $righturl = preg_replace('/%\w{2}/', '', $oldurl);

Hi,

 

Thanks for responding.

The only issue is I'm not doing the redirection in Apache. Rather doing it in Wordpress using a Redirection plugin that allows me to enter redirections on URL's in regex.

So I basically need to get a match on "%e2%80%9c" and "%e2%80%9d".

I tried the following based on your example (which did not work):

Source URL: /2007/04/06/rantings-%e2%80%9cmore-wailing%e2%80%9d-written-3407/  (external request)

Regex: /2007/04/06/rantings-(/%\w)more-wailing(/%\w)-written-3407/  (redirection plugin field)

Target URL: /2007/04/06/rantings-more-wailing/  (redirection plugin field)

 

Any further input or ideas you might have would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

R 

Hi,

 

Found a way...

The unusual string of characters eg: "%e2%80%93" can simply be matched with a "(.+)" (no quotes) 

I'm sure there's a better way but I'm new to regex and I'm happy that I'm now able to redirect the URL's that I want to. 

Regards,

 R
 

Many programming languages have utility methods to "decode" (or "encode") strings into url's (and back). In PHP your could use the urldecode($url_str) method for example.