We are trying to search and replace text in an html file opened with Notepad .

We need to update the paths inside the tags "a href" and "img src", mantaining the names of the files (filenames and path are different in the files)

So we would need to find all of these lines:

 <a href="File://///name.it.domain.com/PATH/file name.extension"
 <img src="PATH/file name.extension"

And change the PATH/ to images/, for any PATH, maintaining the file name:

<a href="images/file name.extension"
<img src="images/file name.extension"

Here you have some examples:

<a href="File://///name.it.domain.com/directory/name/this is a butterfly.pdf" Should change to <a href="images/this is a butterfly.pdf"

and

<a href="C:/party/koala/main.doc" Should change to <a href="images/main.doc"

<img src="it.free.main/doll/hello.jpg" Should change to <img src="images/hello.jpg"

the path in the file have in common the starting expression such as (File://///name.it.domain.com or C:/ etc) so i'm trying with the expression file:.{number}(.*) in find what field and in replace field $1/images it works but it's not optimal as solution because i have to change it mostly in every file, anyone can help us to find a more general solution?

CodePudding user response：

One way to accomplish this is by looking for the last occurrence of the backslash character, since your examples indicated that the presence of at least once can be relied on.

The find regex:

(href|src)=".*\\(.*)"

The replace regex:

$1="images\\$2"

You can see this in action

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