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hi all,

i'm using regular expression to find the url of the page to be opened
using the window.open().

typical urls look like this http://domain.com/path-to-page.html

right now i'm trying href.match(/http:\/\/domain\.com\/\w?\.html/)

and this will get me http://domain.com/path but not everything to
html.

does anyone have some tips they can offer?

i've tried
href.match(/http:\/\/domain\.com\/\w*\.html/)
href.match(/http:\/\/domain\.com\/*\.html/)

and they don't work.

thanks for any help you can offer

On Apr 11, 6:31 am, "jd" <john.dava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i'm using regular expression to find the url of the page to be opened
> using the window.open().
>
> typical urls look like thishttp://domain.com/path-to-page.html
>
> right now i'm trying href.match(/http:\/\/domain\.com\/\w?\.html/)
>

'-' character is not word characters, so it \w won't make it.
Use '-' with \w enclosed by square bracket, and prepend '-' with '\'
because it is regex's special character.

try:
/^http:\/\/domain\.com\/[\w\-]+\.html/

On Apr 11, 11:35 am, "Cah Sableng" <cahsabl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 6:31 am, "jd" <john.dava...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi all,
>
> > i'm using regular expression to find the url of the page to be opened
> > using the window.open().
>
> > typical urls look like thishttp://domain.com/path-to-page.html
>
> > right now i'm trying href.match(/http:\/\/domain\.com\/\w?\.html/)
>
> '-' character is not word characters, so it \w won't make it.
> Use '-' with \w enclosed by square bracket, and prepend '-' with '\'
> because it is regex's special character.
>
> try:
> /^http:\/\/domain\.com\/[\w\-]+\.html/

Presumably the domain name is in a string of other stuff and will be
enclosed in quotes, so maybe:

/http:[^\'\"]+\.html/

will suit better.


--
Rob