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  

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 ...

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 ...