Re: Regular expression pattern for matching end of a URL
phillip.s.powell@gmail.com wrote:
I am working on a simple method that will assign a specific extension
(e.g. ".jsp", ".php", ".cfm", etc.) to the end of a URL if it doesn't
find anything marking a valid extension, however, I do not want to add
an extension if one is found.
You might try the URI class. Make a URI, get the path, and then just
check that one string for a valid extension. This will be much easier
than trying to parse a URI yourself.
package uritest;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
public class Main {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws URISyntaxException {
// TODO code application logic here
URI uri = new URI( "http://www.blah.com/registration/" );
String path = uri.getPath();
if( path.endsWith("/") )
path = path.substring( 0, path.length()-1 );
if( !path.matches( ".+\\..*") )
path += ".jsp";
System.out.println( path );
}
}
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