Perl Regex Problem

allsystems · Post by **allsystems** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 4:45 am

Hi,

I have been struggling with this issue. I am using Text Pipe to trim a sample of URLs to the root domains. Basically I am wanting to delete everything after the "/" including the "/" sign. I have used this regex a million times before but cant get it to work. Here is the regex:

/.*

I am using the find and replace Perl style. It should change this:

domain1.com/sometext/
domain2.com/another-piece-of text/

to:

domain1.com
domain2.com

Where am I going wrong?

allsystems · Post by **allsystems** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:05 am

For anyone interested this seems to work:

/.*$

Not sure why tho

Post by **DataMystic Support** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:39 pm

You assumed that .* would stop at the end of the line- it doesn't - it consumes the rest of the file, or a large chunk of it.

That's why
/.*$
works, although
/[^\r\n]*
is better and faster.

DataMystic

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