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I have installed the plugin: Find and replace

See: http://loweblog.com/software/low-replace/

Is it possible to change the next URL

http://www.news.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCpUrKv4XVw&url=http://nos.nl/artikel/185120-plan-voor-regiotram-in-groningen.html

Into

http://nos.nl/artikel/185120-plan-voor-regiotram-in-groningen.html

And if so how todo that.

Thanks

Marcuse, I doubt you’ll get a proper response from the EllisLab crew, since you’re asking for support for a 3rd party add-on (mine).

You’re looking for a regular expression to change the URL above. Not tested, but perhaps something like this would work:

{exp:low_replace find="^http.*?=(http.*?)(&|$)" replace="$1" regex="yes"}{some_url}{/exp:low_replace}

The master himself, great

Thanks but that isn’t what I looking for.

I want to shorten url’s direct to the owner of the source and not a runaround. It must delete the first url till ‘url=’ and leave the rest alone.

http://www.news.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCpUrKv4XVw&url=http://nos.nl/artikel/185120-plan-voor-regiotram-in-groningen.html

That’s what the above regex should do, actually. Unless you’re replacing urls in blocks of text. Then you’ll need a different regex altogether. I suggest reading some regex tutorials for that.

Thanks Lodewijk.

Marcuse, as EE is working properly I’ll go ahead and move this over to the CodeShare Corner for further discussion.

It is working great